diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 081a6ceb79..8a0a5ca504 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ This is the log of notable changes to EAS CLI and related packages.
 
 ### 🛠 Breaking changes
 
+- Add support for `.easignore` when `requireCommit` is set to `true`. ([#2942](https://github.com/expo/eas-cli/pull/2942) by [@sjchmiela](https://github.com/sjchmiela))
+  - Up to 15.0.0, if `requireCommit` was `true`, `.easignore` was silently ignored.
+  - Versions 15.0.0-15.0.13 started using `.easignore` to skip files from being bundled into a tarball when `requireCommit` was `true`. This was an unexpected change in behavior.
+  - To clear this up, versions 15.0.13-15.0.15 were erroring if `.easignore` was present when `requireCommit` was `true`.
+  - `eas-cli@16.0.0` formalizes the 15.0.0-15.0.13 behavior by adhering to `.easignore` even when `requireCommit` is set to `true`.
+  - If you know what you're doing and you want to suppress a warning printed, you can do so by setting `EAS_SUPPRESS_REQUIRE_COMMIT_EASIGNORE_WARNING` environment variable to `true`.
+
 ### 🎉 New features
 
 ### 🐛 Bug fixes
diff --git a/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/__tests__/git.test.ts b/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/__tests__/git.test.ts
index 4a120ff959..4e7fec8cdf 100644
--- a/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/__tests__/git.test.ts
+++ b/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/__tests__/git.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import fs from 'fs/promises';
 import os from 'os';
 import path from 'path';
 
+import Log from '../../../log';
 import GitClient from '../git';
 
 describe('git', () => {
@@ -242,19 +243,91 @@ describe('git', () => {
     ).resolves.not.toThrow();
   });
 
-  it('does not allow .easignore if requireCommit is true', async () => {
-    const repoRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
-    await spawnAsync('git', ['init'], { cwd: repoRoot });
-    const vcs = new GitClient({
-      requireCommit: true,
-      maybeCwdOverride: repoRoot,
+  describe('when requireCommit is true', () => {
+    it('adheres to .easignore', async () => {
+      const repoRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+      await spawnAsync('git', ['init'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+      const vcs = new GitClient({
+        requireCommit: true,
+        maybeCwdOverride: repoRoot,
+      });
+
+      const warn = jest.spyOn(Log, 'warn');
+
+      await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/.easignore`, '*easignored*\n');
+      await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/.gitignore`, '*gitignored*\n');
+
+      await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/easignored-file.txt`, 'file');
+      await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/nonignored-file.txt`, 'file');
+      await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/gitignored-file.txt`, 'file');
+      await spawnAsync('git', ['add', '.'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+      await spawnAsync('git', ['commit', '-m', 'tmp commit'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+
+      const copyRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+      await expect(vcs.makeShallowCopyAsync(copyRoot)).resolves.not.toThrow();
+
+      expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('.easignore'));
+
+      await expect(fs.stat(path.join(copyRoot, 'easignored-file.txt'))).rejects.toThrow('ENOENT');
+      await expect(fs.stat(path.join(copyRoot, 'gitignored-file.txt'))).rejects.toThrow('ENOENT');
+      await expect(fs.stat(path.join(copyRoot, 'nonignored-file.txt'))).resolves.not.toThrow();
     });
 
-    await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/.easignore`, '*easignored*\n');
+    it('prints a warning only once if .easignore exists', async () => {
+      const repoRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+      await spawnAsync('git', ['init'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+      const vcs = new GitClient({
+        requireCommit: true,
+        maybeCwdOverride: repoRoot,
+      });
 
-    await spawnAsync('git', ['add', '.'], { cwd: repoRoot });
-    await spawnAsync('git', ['commit', '-m', 'tmp commit'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+      const warn = jest.spyOn(Log, 'warn');
+
+      await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/.easignore`, '*easignored*\n');
+      await spawnAsync('git', ['add', '.'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+      await spawnAsync('git', ['commit', '-m', 'tmp commit'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+
+      const copyRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+      await expect(vcs.makeShallowCopyAsync(copyRoot)).resolves.not.toThrow();
+
+      expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining('.easignore'));
+
+      const anotherCopyRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+      await expect(vcs.makeShallowCopyAsync(anotherCopyRoot)).resolves.not.toThrow();
+
+      expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+
+    describe('when EAS_SUPPRESS_REQUIRE_COMMIT_EASIGNORE_WARNING is set', () => {
+      beforeAll(() => {
+        process.env.EAS_SUPPRESS_REQUIRE_COMMIT_EASIGNORE_WARNING = '1';
+      });
+
+      afterAll(() => {
+        delete process.env.EAS_SUPPRESS_REQUIRE_COMMIT_EASIGNORE_WARNING;
+      });
+
+      it('does not print a warning', async () => {
+        const repoRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+        await spawnAsync('git', ['init'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+        const vcs = new GitClient({
+          requireCommit: true,
+          maybeCwdOverride: repoRoot,
+        });
 
-    await expect(vcs.makeShallowCopyAsync(repoRoot)).rejects.toThrow('Detected ".easignore" file');
+        const warn = jest.spyOn(Log, 'warn');
+        warn.mockClear();
+
+        await fs.writeFile(`${repoRoot}/.easignore`, '*easignored*\n');
+        await spawnAsync('git', ['add', '.'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+        await spawnAsync('git', ['commit', '-m', 'tmp commit'], { cwd: repoRoot });
+
+        const copyRoot = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'eas-cli-git-test-'));
+        await expect(vcs.makeShallowCopyAsync(copyRoot)).resolves.not.toThrow();
+
+        expect(warn).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(0);
+      });
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/git.ts b/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/git.ts
index 5d0af67c02..0882a017e9 100644
--- a/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/git.ts
+++ b/packages/eas-cli/src/vcs/clients/git.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import spawnAsync from '@expo/spawn-async';
 import { Errors } from '@oclif/core';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
+import getenv from 'getenv';
 import path from 'path';
 
 import Log, { learnMore } from '../../log';
@@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ import {
 import { EASIGNORE_FILENAME, Ignore, makeShallowCopyAsync } from '../local';
 import { Client } from '../vcs';
 
+let hasWarnedAboutEasignoreInRequireCommit = false;
+
 export default class GitClient extends Client {
   private readonly maybeCwdOverride?: string;
   public requireCommit: boolean;
@@ -165,18 +168,14 @@ export default class GitClient extends Client {
     const rootPath = await this.getRootPathAsync();
     const sourceEasignorePath = path.join(rootPath, EASIGNORE_FILENAME);
     const doesEasignoreExist = await fs.exists(sourceEasignorePath);
-    if (this.requireCommit && doesEasignoreExist) {
-      Log.error(
-        `".easignore" file is not supported if you also have "requireCommit" set to "true" in "eas.json".`
-      );
-      Log.error(
-        `Remove "${sourceEasignorePath}" and use ".gitignore" instead. ${learnMore(
-          'https://expo.fyi/eas-build-archive'
-        )}`
-      );
-      throw new Error(
-        `Detected ".easignore" file ${sourceEasignorePath} while in "requireCommit = true" mode.`
+    const shouldSuppressWarning =
+      hasWarnedAboutEasignoreInRequireCommit ||
+      getenv.boolish('EAS_SUPPRESS_REQUIRE_COMMIT_EASIGNORE_WARNING', false);
+    if (this.requireCommit && doesEasignoreExist && !shouldSuppressWarning) {
+      Log.warn(
+        `You have "requireCommit: true" in "eas.json" and also ".easignore". If ".easignore" does remove files, note that the repository checked out in EAS will not longer be Git-clean.`
       );
+      hasWarnedAboutEasignoreInRequireCommit = true;
     }
 
     let gitRepoUri;