Unity Quickstart (with GIT/LFS)

New Unity Project

• Edit > Project Settings:

  • [Category: Editor] Asset Serialization / Mode: “Force Text”
  • [Category: Version Control ] Mode: “Visible Meta Files”

• File > Save Project

Download files

• Open command prompt (Win+R -> 'cmd')

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/.gitattributes
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/.gitconfig
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/.gitconfig---2021.3.13f1
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/.gitconfig-update-version.bat
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/.gitignore
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/readme.md
curl -L -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0" -O https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/refs/heads/main/all-unity-root-files/git-lfs-logo.png

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/build-profile.bat
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/build-windows-dev.bat
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/build-windows-release.bat

mkdir Assets\Editor

curl -o Assets\Editor\UnityPostBuildCallbacks.cs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/UnityPostBuildCallbacks.cs

• Open current folder in Explorer:

explorer .

• Doubleclick on '.gitconfig-update-version.bat'

git init
git lfs install
git add .
curl -o .git/hooks/pre-commit https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rboonzaijer/unity-quickstart/main/all-unity-root-files/pre-commit
git commit -m "initial"

git remote add origin ssh://git@{host}:{port}/{new-repo}.git
git push -u origin main

HOWTO use existing Unity project (with GIT/LFS)

• git clone {repository-url}

( lfs will already be enabled if it's enabled in the repository )

More info

• https://github.com/NYUGameCenter/Unity-Git-Config
• https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/the-complete-guide-to-unity-git