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Git Large File Storage (LFS)

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Summary

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files in a repository with small pointers to keep the history light. The original files are stored on the LFS server and downloaded as needed, suitable for assets such as images, videos, and design files. Activate LFS with git lfs track, which writes patterns to the file .gitattributes.

Key points

LFS stores small pointers in repo and large blobs on LFS servers
Git lfs track "*.psd" adds a pattern to .gitattributes
Without the LFS client, the cloned file is just a text pointer.
GitHub limits the usual files to about 100 MB per file.

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