I eventually found an answer by strich: on https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/911 I’ve had similar issues in the past and I think there may be a potential bug in cloning with git lfs (Still to be determined). You can try this method of fetching the repo, which is in fact faster too: // Skip smudge – We’ll download … Read more
I would not expect a an exact threshold value being given. LFS saves on the amount of data the needs to be exchanged for for synchronizing with a remote repository. However, the saving only applies as long as the large file itself is not changing. Actually for a changed file you would need a second … Read more
You can do this in Git LFS v2.4.0 and later using the –all flag git lfs ls-files –all You can read more about it in this pull request.
I updated the git client from 2.10.0 to 2.16.1 and it now says: WARNING: ‘git lfs clone’ is deprecated and will not be updated with new flags from ‘git clone’ ‘git clone’ has been updated in upstream Git to have comparable speeds to ‘git lfs clone’. I suppose the answer is that git lfs clone … Read more
Important: To successfully get Git LFS working, the file may not already be in your Git history. Mandatory steps: Install Git LFS via brew (or mac ports.. ) brew install git-lfs Initialize LFS inside jour local Git repo. Otherwise your commands will have no effect. git lfs install // Updated pre-push hook. Git LFS initialized. … Read more
The workaround given by amiuhle works fine for me: git push –no-verify It prevents the pre-push hook of git lfs from trying to upload the files. So link-files are committed, but the actual binaries are missing.
If you are on Mac, run: brew install git-lfs git lfs install git lfs install –system
Since Git LFS 2.2.0 you can use git lfs migrate command. In your case it would look this way: git lfs migrate import –include=”*.csv” After this, you should be able to push changes into origin. More information about git lfs migrate is available on Git LFS 2.2.0 release note site and git-lfs-migrate command documentation.
Yes! You can download all LFS files with the following command: git lfs fetch –all Check out the documentation for this feature here: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/man/git-lfs-fetch.1.ronn
There is no exact threshold to define what is a large file. This is up to the user. To see if you need to store some files using Git LFS you need to understand how git works. The most fundamental difference between Git and other source control tools (perforce, svn), is that Git stores a … Read more