#gitlfs — Public Fediverse posts

🚀 Breaking News: The future of large files in #Git is... wait for it... Git! 🎉 Tyler Cipriani unveils the groundbreaking revelation that Git is working on its own solution to large files, because apparently, nothing screams #innovation like removing the convenience of Git LFS only to reinvent it internally! 🤦‍♂️✨
https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2025/08/15/git-lfs/ #LargeFiles #GitLFS #GitHub #TylerCipriani #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

The best part about writing your own #GitLFS server is that the API "specification" provided by the Git LFS project is basically Just a Bunch of Markdown Files 😬😬😬

clone2leak, czyli jak drobne szczegóły powodują wyciekanie poświadczeń

Git to bezdyskusyjnie jeden z najpopularniejszych systemów zarządzania wersjami. Zaadoptowany przez wiele organizacji (np. GitHuba) doczekał się wsparcia w postaci różnych narzędzi, takich jak GitHub Desktop czy Git LFS. To z kolei pociągnęło za sobą konieczność współdzielenia poświadczeń użytkownika. Niestety nie wszystkie sprawdzenia dokonywane były z należytą starannością i badacz...

#WBiegu #Git #Gitcls #Gitdesktop #Gitlfs #Injection #Newline #Podatność

https://sekurak.pl/clone2leak-czyli-jak-drobne-szczegoly-powoduja-wyciekanie-poswiadczen/

If you want to use Restic (or any other deduplicating backup tool) for backing up Git repositories with lots of large binary files, this blogpost might be helpful: https://olivergerlich.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/efficient-backup-of-a-git-repository-with-deduplication/ .
Unfortunately I did not find an _easy_ solution for this; but at least it is possible to make space-efficient backups in this case.

#Backup #Git #Restic #BorgBackup #GitLFS #gitannex #Hachoir

:nixos: #nix flakes and git smudge filters:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/flakes-and-files-behind-git-smudge-filters/58446

#NixOS #gitLfs #gitCrypt #gitAnnex #git

Started the new year by pushing a bunch of commits to #github, when I got the dreaded warning about commit file size:

remote: warning: File <blob>... is larger than GitHub's recommended maximum file size of 50.00 MB.

The recommended solution is to use #gitlfs, but having been burned by it in the past, I know Git LFS is the spawn of the devil.

So looking for an alternative, I came upon #gitannex.

Will try that on an experimental basis to see if it works.

https://git-annex.branchable.com

Just because it just invaded my tiny little world and brought pain and destruction about: Why the f*** does git-lfs exist?
Seriously, unless you have to track different versions of Bladerunner: Don’t use git for large files, and don’t even think about git-lfs.

And never, ever, ever store your builds in your SCM, it’s called SCM for a reason. Why not using something like Artifactory? Or whatever artefact storage your git hoster throws in for free? As long as its not git LFS.
#git #gitlfs #scm

If my team works with SVN and I'd like to use GIT-SVN is there a way to handle binaries via Git-LFS while keeping in sync with the svn repo? 🤔👀

I tried:
- git svn init
- placing a .gitattributes
- adding .gitattributes to .git/info/exclude
- git svn fetch

But the binaries won't be listed by git lfs ls-files, meaning they are still handled outside lfs 🤕

#git #gitlfs #gitsvn #svn

After struggling with #gitlfs for the last couple of days. I've made the decision to avoid it. In theory, Git LFS allows us to manage our large video files in the same way that we manage the rest of our website assets. In practice it's just broken in so many ways that it is effectively unusable. Foritunately, stripping it out of our repo is not a big deal since I'm able to rewire histories without any real consequence for now. https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/05/12/why-you-shouldn%27t-use-git-lfs/

Update:

Experimented a bit with this idea and seems to work ok.

Enabled LFS support in one of my Git servers, and as long as we don't use any pointers and we stick to use the locking functionality only, we could go back and forth between Git core only and Git LFS enabled servers withou any issue.

#git #gitlfs #github #gitlab #lfs

I'd appreciate your views on Git LFS.

I've always been reluctant to enable LFS in my Git servers basically because of the reasons so well explained by Gregory Szorc in this article:

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/05/12/why-you-shouldn%27t-use-git-lfs/

When having the need to track big binary files, we have pushed them inside the repos and allowed them to balloon rather than implement LFS.

There is an interesting use case that came now though, which is the case when the interest is not about storing the large files in LFS, but to take advantage of the locking feature only... this case is less controversial as there will be actually no files in the LFS storage and no pointers in the repo.

Please, share your experiences or views. Thanks.

#git #gitlfs #github #lfs

Trying to figure out a good setup for photos on my blog (https://jonas.brusman.se).
The current setup based on Git LFS on Netlify is cumbersome and doesn’t allow me to post new photos from my phone with something like Tina CMS.
Suggestions are welcome!

#eleventy #11ty #staticsite #netlify #photoblog #gitlfs #tinacms #ssg #webdev #indieweb

1. У тебя активирован #GitLFS
2. Ты добавил свежий скриншот в новую заметку
3. #Git распознал его как новый медиа-файл для индексации в LFS
4. Закоммитил
5. `git lfs fsck` говорит `Git LFS fsck OK`
6. Запушил
7. Дождался сборки и выгрузки в прод
8. `The image “https://toby3d.me/ru/2023/10/11/143444/photo.png” cannot be displayed because it contains errors.`

Если честно, поражаюсь тому насколько #Git #LFS хрупкое говно. Я уже трижды перезаписывал всю историю коммитов ломая #GPG-подписи и лечил хвосты мешающие переключению веток, но всё равно какие-то индексы на медиафайлы теряются только на проде.

#GitLFS

Why is working with #gitlfs so hard? It's like a whole another layer of complexity on top of #git, and I just do not have time for this ...

#GitLFS (git-lfs) - Remote Code Execution (#RCE) exploit #CVE-2020-27955 - Clone to Pwn https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Nov/1

@HorlogeSkynet really nice blog post. Thanks! IMHO your toot looks a bit like "click bait" (you know - typically with a "?" at the end...) 😀 So I was very critical. What about adding some more info in your toot next time, like "#GitLFS is a project allowing developers to version files that couldn’t be version-ed by Git alone. Here is the How to: [link]"

Why did I recently rewrite my whole #blog #Git history ? https://blog.samuel.domains/blog/articles/why-did-i-recently-rewrite-my-whole-blog-git-history

#GitLFS

New blog post: Scary git-lfs “bad object” error not so scary after all

https://ar.al/2019/10/19/scary-git-lfs-bad-object-error-not-so-scary-after-all/

#gitLFS #git

New blog post: Install git-lfs on a Raspberry Pi

https://ar.al/2019/10/19/install-git-lfs-on-a-raspberry-pi/

#git #gitLFS #RaspberryPi

Are you a fan of super-simple self-hosted Git?
Wish you could use Git LFS as easily with those repos, say by just pushing/pulling to any shared/synced filesystem?
Then you might like this thing I wrote: https://github.com/sinbad/lfs-folderstore

Beta tomorrow probably! #simplefan #git #gitlfs