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You need this: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore and this: https://github.com/gitattributes/gitattributes/blob/master/Unity.gitattributes Also google how to install and setup git LFS. The point of tools like git is mainly version control. You can easily go back to earlier versions of your project. If you manage to break your project somehow, it will be easy to restore a working version. When you keep that in mind, it should be easy to come up with a strategy concerning the frequency of commits. Also, if you host your git off-site you also have a backup solution in place in case your SSD dies or something. GitHub is actually unsuited for most gamedev projects, unless you pay for it. The space you have available for free will be eaten up by your assets in no time. If you just want the version control, you can host it yourself locally. It's very easy to do, just google it or ask ChatGPT. If you also want to use it to do backups and GitHub is too expensive for you, the simplest and cheapest way to have a git repository in the cloud is to use google drive. You can map your google drive as a network drive and then push to a git repository that you host on that network drive. More on reddit.com

Great list, but if anyone is interested in looking at the source code for bigger games this is a good resource: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code More on reddit.com

Yes, git is used, and github is also used. You probably want to enable git-lfs More on reddit.com