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Re:How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories by midnitewarrior on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:22PM (#14134524)
LFS is a tool to use to avoid checking in 7 gb files. If you want to weigh down your repo with binary bloat, don't configure your repo to use LFS.
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Re:How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories by kskskuejej2 on Monday April 17, 2017 @07:35PM (#14135369)
Have you tried setting up LFS on your self-hosted ssh git repo?

Turns out LFS is designed to authenticate over https and doesn't work at all with ssh credentials out of the box because f* you.

I'm still hoping for a native git feature for large files, so the git-lfs crap can die in a fire.

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Re:How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories by stephenr on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:12AM (#14136416)
LFS was developed by GitHub, a company that depends on people thinking it's "too hard" to run their own DVCS repo hosting.

Compare this with the Mercurial LargeFiles extension, which needs nothing more than a line in the .hgrc on each end (client/server) to enable it.

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