The last few months of development of our Unity game have been really annoying. We don't know exactly what happened or when, but all of a sudden there was a button that had its image gone missing, as well as a few text objects with their fonts go missing. We would fix them, do some code changes, commit and push to GitLab. My partner would pull the changes and the button/text object would be missing their things. Then a few objects would start having their scripts go missing. We would add the scripts/icons/fonts back to their right place, commit, push, pull they are still broken. We figured it was the fact that Unity does not auto save, as we are not the best at ctrl S like we should. Created a script that saves every minute. That did not fix it. The other day we made all the changes, File Save, File Save Project, closed unity, Commit, push, I deleted the project, Re-cloned it, these problems still persist.

We figure that it has something to do with GitLFS, .gitignore, or our .gitattributes. Any thoughts as to what could be reverting out changes? Bellow are our .gitignore and .gitattributes.

.gitignore

# Project Game Save files for when playing the game in the editor
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### Unity ###
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.gitattributes

#
# Git attributes for Unity projects
#
# Compiled by Andrew Pullins
#
# Sources
# https://gist.github.com/webbertakken/ff250a0d5e59a8aae961c2e509c07fbc
# https://hextantstudios.com/unity-gitattributes/
# https://gist.github.com/nemotoo/b8a1c3a0f1225bb9231979f389fd4f3f
# https://github.com/alexkaratarakis/gitattributes/blob/master/Unity.gitattributes
# https://gist.github.com/bpesquet/4e28b431b673addef1774d497b614b33
# 

# 3D formats
*.3dm lfs-file
*.3ds lfs-file
*.abc lfs-file
*.blend lfs-file
*.c4d lfs-file
*.collada lfs-file
*.dae lfs-file
*.dfx lfs-file
*.dxf lfs-file
*.FBX lfs-file
*.fbx lfs-file
*.jas lfs-file
*.lws lfs-file
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*.lwo2 lfs-file
*.lxo lfs-file
*.ma lfs-file
*.max lfs-file
*.mb lfs-file
*.obj lfs-file
*.ply lfs-file
*.skp lfs-file
*.stl lfs-file
*.ztl lfs-file

# Audio formats
*.aif lfs-file
*.aiff lfs-file
*.it lfs-file
*.mod lfs-file
*.mp3 lfs-file
*.ogg lfs-file
*.rns lfs-file
*.reason lfs-file
*.s3m lfs-file
*.wav lfs-file
*.xm lfs-file

# Bundles and binaries
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*.dll lfs-file
*.exe lfs-file
*.mdb lfs-file
*.pdb lfs-file
*.so lfs-file

# Compressed Archive
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*.bz2 lfs-file
*.gz lfs-file
*.rar lfs-file
*.tar lfs-file
*.zip lfs-file

# Documents formats
*.pdf lfs-file

# ETC
*.a lfs-file9

# Ensure that text files that any contributor introduces to the repository have their line endings normalized
* text=auto

# Font formats
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*.ttf lfs-file

# Image formats
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*.afphoto lfs-file
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*.psd lfs-file
*.svg lfs-file
*.tga lfs-file
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*.tiff lfs-file
*.webp lfs-file
*.xcf lfs-file

# Increase probability of success for merging files with specific extensions
*.cs diff=csharp

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[attr]unity-yaml-file -text -merge=unityamlmerge linguist-generated

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CodePudding user response：

In the middle a line where it says

# Files built by Visual Studio
 *_i.c 
 *_p.c 
 *_h.h 
 *.ilk 
 *.meta

You have excluded all meta files. This means the assets will be there but it loses the link to them