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Git LFS

Git LFS

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Git
Published
January 11, 2024
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Motivation

Sometimes we don’t want to download all LFS files all at one (with git clone), so we can use skip-smudge to create pointers for all LFS files first, and then download only what we really need.
 

Steps

  1. install skip-smudge function for git lfs
      2. git lfs install --skip-smudge
  1. clone the repo with only pointers
      2. # linux
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone [repo.url]

# windows
set GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1; git clone [repo.url]

cd [repo]
  1. pull down selected file
      2. git lfs pull --include "file.name"
 
Done 👏
If you want to transfer a downloaded LFS file back into a pointer
git lfs pointer --file="filename" > filename.pt
mv filename.pt filename