{"id":1299,"date":"2025-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.sidekick.be\/itenium\/git-lfs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:31:40","slug":"git-lfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.sidekick.be\/itenium\/blog\/dev-setup\/git-lfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Git Large File Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"usage\">Usage<\/h1>\n<pre><code class=\"language-ps1\">git lfs track \"*.mp4\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This will create\/update your <code>.gitattributes<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-text\">*.mp4 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p class=\"notice--info\">Note the quotes around \u201c*.mp4\u201d, without them your shell will expand and add individual file entries to <code>.gitattributes<\/code>!<\/p>\n<p>It will also add git hooks for <code>pre-push<\/code> etc:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-sh\">#!\/bin\/sh\ncommand -v git-lfs &gt;\/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1 || { echo &gt;&amp;2 \"nThis repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path. If you no longer wish to use Git LFS, remove this hook by deleting .git\/hooks\/pre-push.n\"; exit 2; }\ngit lfs pre-push \"$@\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You only need to do a <code>git lfs install<\/code> once. LFS will add the hooks for you when cloning a repository with LFS content.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"performance\">Performance<\/h1>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to clone or pull something with a lot of big lfs files, you can speed up the process by batch downloading the files.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-sh\">git lfs clone\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>For a pull you can use this alias to pull without lfs files and then download them separately.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-sh\">git config --global alias.plfs \"!git -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.required=false pull &amp;&amp; git lfs pull\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h2 id=\"what\">What!?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><code>-c<\/code>: overrides configuration for this command only\n<ul>\n<li>Example: <code>git -c user.email=\"me@company.com\" commit -m \"Fix bug\"<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><code>filter.lfs.smudge=<\/code>: the default value is <code>git-lfs smudge -- %f<\/code> which converts the LFS pointer stored in git with the actual file from the LFS server. We\u2019re setting this to nothing so that it doesn\u2019t do so<\/li>\n<li><code>filter.lfs.required=false<\/code>: mark lfs files as optional<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"configuration\">Configuration<\/h1>\n<p>See all lfs related settings, with any of:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-ps1\">git config --list | ? { $_ -like \"filter.lfs*\" }\ngit config --list | grep filter.lfs\ngit config --get-regexp 'filter.lfs'\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h1 id=\"github\">Github<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Github currently doesn\u2019t allow files &gt;2GB.<\/li>\n<li>A remote LFS object can only be deleted by deleting the whole repository.<\/li>\n<li>An error starting from 100MB and a warning from 50MB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<pre><code class=\"language-text\">remote: warning: See https:\/\/gh.io\/lfs for more information.\nremote: warning: File x.mp4 is 57.88 MB; this is larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB\nremote: warning: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https:\/\/git-lfs.github.com.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h1>Extras<\/h1>\n<p><b>Other interesting reads<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/git-lfs.com\/\">An open source Git extension for versioning large files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/git-lfs\/git-lfs\/security\/advisories\/GHSA-q6r2-x2cc-vrp7\">They just fixed an interesting security issue (CVE-2024-53263, Score: 8.5)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needed to get around installing <code>git lfs<\/code> because I\u2019m adding large media files to <a href=\"https:\/\/obsidian.md\/\">Obsidian<\/a> which I\u2019m syncing with a private github repository.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/git-lfs\/git-lfs\" class=\"github\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.shields.io\/github\/stars\/git-lfs\/git-lfs.svg?style=social&amp;label=Star\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/git-lfs\/git-lfs\">git-lfs\/git-lfs<\/a>: Git extension for versioning large files<\/p>\n<p>It stores your large files on a separate server and works seamlessly with your normal git workflow.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hide-from-excerpt\" id=\"install\">Install<\/h1>\n<pre><code class=\"language-ps1\">choco install git-lfs -y\ngit lfs install\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dev-setup","tag-tutorial","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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