Git LFS

July 11,2024

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"

last update: 2024-09-06