Cleanup git history of large files (bower_components)

[grimen]

Git tree is ~30 MB large even though the project is very simple, this is because bower_components is still in the Git tree which makes no sense - cloning forever. I removed it from versioning in my fork, but didn't do the actual version histoy cleanup using git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -rf bower_components' --prune-empty HEAD because that require the project maintainer to be aware. Read more here: https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data/

[thomaspark]

The reason Bower components are tracked is because the project site is hosted through GitHub. This is also why there's just a single gh-pages branch (#51). Normally I would agree about both of these suggested changes.

See: https://help.github.com/categories/github-pages-basics/

[grimen]

@thomaspark The best practice for that is to use a build task that compiles into dist the files you need. Having an entire tree of bower components hanging in versioning will only cause troubles, no upside of it really.

I could do a neat Grunt task for this if you agree on it.

[thomaspark]

@grimen, I am open to a Grunt task that handles copying over the necessary files.

Appreciate all your comments and PRs. Busy at the moment, but I'll go through your PRs and merge them in soon, probably next week.

[grimen]

Sure, I could do a PR proposal.

I find a lot of value in this project, it is really solving a problem for designers/developers. I actually got some more ideas/reflections that could add value without much visual change that I would love to discuss when you got more time.

[grimen]

Did a minimalistic solution using Grunt copy task. Later on Webpack makes sense when codebase is refactored, but as GlyphSearch is not modularized (ES6/CommonJS/AMD) that didn't make much sense.

[jerone]

There is some discussion as to whether or not the bower_components folder should be committed. I like the solution mentioned by Ben Forrest on his post "Should you commit Bower components to Git?" where one .gitignore the bower_components contents and just un-ignore the vendor dist folders.

[grimen]

@jerone Assuming Bower components where designed the same way, they are not - Bower Components spec is a complete mess, everyone do their own file structure. Grunt copy task is much more clear IMO, keeping everything in one place.

[grimen]

@jerone @thomaspark probably can decide what is preferable for this project though.