Re:How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories
by stephenr on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:12AM
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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.
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.