LFS

Large Git repositories become very slow and put a lot of strain on the GitLab server. The Large File Storage (LFS) extension is used to off-load large files from a repository to a separate storage.

For more information about LFS and GitLab please refer to the official documentation here.

User Interaction with LSF Repositories

A Git client with enabled LFS support is needed to work with LFS-enabled repositories.

The following examples show how to use the command line git client with LFS.

Clone

git clone https://gitlab.inf.ethz.ch/<group>/<project>.git
cd <project>
git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout 3600'
git pull

Enable LFS for a Repository

To enable LFS right after creating a new GitLab project follow these instructions. For an existing project that already contains data that should be moved to LFS isginf also provides instructions and a tool.

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