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Git Large File Storage (LFS)
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Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com
“Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.”
Features
- More repository space: Host more in your Git repositories. External file storage makes it easy to keep your repository at a manageable size.
- Faster cloning and fetching: Download less data. This means faster cloning and fetching from repositories that deal with large files.
- Same Git workflow: Work like you always do on Git-no need for additional commands, secondary storage systems, or toolsets.
- Same access controls and permissions: Keep the same access controls and permissions for large files as the rest of your Git repository when working with a remote host like GitHub.”
Git Large File Storage (LFS), Git LFS, Git Large File Storage, Large File Storage (LFS)
“GitHub limits the size of files allowed in repositories. To track files beyond this limit, you can use Git Large File Storage.”
About Git Large File Storage
“Git LFS handles large files by storing references to the file in the repository, but not the actual file itself. To work around Git's architecture, Git LFS creates a pointer file which acts as a reference to the actual file (which is stored somewhere else). GitHub manages this pointer file in your repository. When you clone the repository down, GitHub uses the pointer file as a map to go and find the large file for you.”
Using Git LFS, you can store files up to:
Product Maximum file size
- GitHub Free 2 GB
- GitHub Pro 2 GB
- GitHub Team 4 GB
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Installation
Windows
Via Chocolatey - https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/git-lfs
Chocolatey v0.11.2
Installing the following packages:
git-lfs
By installing, you accept licenses for the packages.
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git-lfs.install can be automatically uninstalled.
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See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
Getting Started
Download and install the Git command line extension. Once downloaded and installed, set up Git LFS for your user account by running:
git lfs install
Git LFS initialized.
You only need to run this once per user account.
In each Git repository where you want to use Git LFS, select the file types you'd like Git LFS to manage (or directly edit your .gitattributes). You can configure additional file extensions at anytime.
- .psd”
Now make sure .gitattributes is tracked:
git add .gitattributes
Note that defining the file types Git LFS should track will not, by itself, convert any pre-existing files to Git LFS, such as files on other branches or in your prior commit history. To do that, use the git lfs migrate[1] command, which has a range of options designed to suit various potential use cases.
There is no step three. Just commit and push to GitHub as you normally would; for instance, if your current branch is named main:
git add file.psd
git commit -m “Add design file”
git push origin main
Check out our wiki, discussion forum, and documentation for help with any questions you might have!
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