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[Lottojoy]

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Hi GitHub Community, what’s the best practice for structuring an Unreal Engine project in Git? What folders should be committed/ignored, and how do you handle large assets (Git LFS)?

[WaiRuneMEKA]

For Unreal Engine projects, the best practice is to commit only what’s required to rebuild the project, ignore generated files, and use Git LFS for binary assets.

What to commit

YourProject.uproject

Config/

Content/ (all .uasset / .umap)

Source/ (if you use C++)

Plugins/ (your project plugins and their content/source)

What to ignore (generated)

Binaries/

Intermediate/

Saved/

DerivedDataCache/ (DDC)

IDE folders: .vs/, .idea/, .vscode/ and OS files like .DS_Store

Git LFS for large/binary assets

Track Unreal binaries with LFS (recommended):

*.uasset

*.umap
Optionally also track big media files:

*.fbx, *.png, *.jpg, *.wav, *.mp4

[Firstyjps]

You should generally commit:

Source/ (C++ code)

Config/

Content/ (but see Git LFS notes below)

.uproject

.uplugin (if applicable)

Plugins/ (if custom or required for build)

These are essential for rebuilding the project from scratch.