I am trying to push to my repo, I believe the reason the git push is taking forever is due to some decently large video files. I am using continuous deployment with netlify which takes my github repo and points it to my netlify domain, if I were to git ignore these files would they even be present on my deployed site?? very unsure of what to do at this point.
You could use one of the git LFS implementation in order to chose an external backend for your large video files.
For example, jasonwhite/rudolfs, a high-performance, caching Git LFS server with an AWS S3 back-end.
Netlify Large Media uses Git LFS, but with some requirements and limitations.