Update current commit only If you want to move off LFS, but are not so worried about fixing the entire git history, you can do the following; git lfs uninstall touch **/* git commit -a This will uninstall LFS support, touch every single file (so that git recognises that is has changed) then commit them … Read more
Use: git lfs track –filename [file path] Source: git lfs track –help –filename Treat the arguments as literal filenames, not as patterns. Any special glob characters in the filename will be escaped when writing the .gitattributes file. This option has been available since v2.9.0 of the LFS extension (pull request). You can check your local … Read more
There doesn’t currently appear to be a great way of removing large assets from git-lfs. GitHub’s current suggestion is to use a tool called The BFG to completely strip all existence of the file from your repo. Presumably it’ll then be removed from the lfs storage when git’s garbage collection is next run by GitHub. … Read more
They do solve the same problem. Let me start off with pro/con, then I’ll move into technical differences. git-annex Pros: Supports multiple remotes that you can store the binaries. Can be used without support from hosting provider (for more details see here). Cons: Windows support in beta, and has been for a long time Users … Read more
One specificity of Git (and other distributed systems) compared to centralized systems is that each repository contains the whole history of the project. Suppose you create a 100 MB file, modify it 100 times in a way that doesn’t compress well. You’ll end up with a 10 GB repository. This means that each clone will … Read more
TL;DR If everything is set up correctly, you can verify that git LFS is going to work properly by: git add the file(s) in question. Do one of the following: Run git lfs status and ensure the file(s) in question appear under Git LFS objects to be committed, and that they have the LFS value … Read more
Two alternatives: (1) Using the GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE variable: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY Obs: for “Windows”, use the following two commands: set GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY (2) Configuring the git-lfs smudge: git config –global filter.lfs.smudge “git-lfs smudge –skip — %f” git config –global filter.lfs.process “git-lfs filter-process –skip” git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY To undo this configuration, execute: git config … Read more
Answer 1 As explained in this video (at 1:27), when you push a file tracked by git lfs it is intercepted and placed on a different server, leaving a pointer in your git repository. As you see in the reference you provide in Question 4, this worked for you. Answer 2 This is a bit … Read more
Locking support of Git LFS is documented here https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/File-Locking. Git LFS v2.0.0 includes an early release of File Locking. File Locking lets developers lock files they are updating to prevent other users from updating them at the same time. Concurrent edits in Git repositories will lead to merge conflicts, which are very difficult to resolve … Read more
I have just recently run into this problem where assets were accidentally added to git-lfs on one branch that shouldn’t have been. My solution was: git lfs untrack ‘<file-type>’ git rm –cached ‘<file-type>’ git add ‘<file-type>’ git commit -m “restore ‘<file-type>’ to git from lfs” The result is a rewrite of the git-lfs oid sha256 … Read more