Git LFS
Working with Git LFS and other problems
July 11,2024
last update: 2024-11-26
global gitignore
I’m surprised I only came to know on 2024 that you can have a global gitignore
you can just put this inside ~/.gitignore
# Node
npm-debug.log
# Mac
.DS_Store
# Windows
Thumbs.db
# WebStorm
.idea/
# vi
*~
# General
log/
*.log
and then do,
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
good riddance .DS_Store
LFS
Installing Git-lfs
MacOS:
brew install git-lfs
Linux:
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install git-lfs
Working with lfs
LFS manages blobs by just storing the hash pointer of the file int the CVS and treating it as a blob of binary this is kept track in the .gitattributes file.
When you clone a repo with lfs content. do
git lfs pull
to get the actual content. Else it’ll be a text file with a pointer to the actual file
To add a new file to Git LFS, you need to first track it with Git, then tell Git LFS to manage it. Here’s how you do that:
git lfs install
git lfs track "<filename>"
git add .gitattributes # Adding the .gitattributes file to the repo
git add <filename>
git commit -m "Add <filename> to Git LFS"