Git LFS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“I use git+lfs for unity projects and it works out great.”
“There's Git LFS, that hooks up an object store (like S3) to git for large files.”
Caveats and dissent
“I've found LFS very brittle when bouncing between branches and moving around in history.”
“Git LFS is extremely brittle and will break your local check out if you so much as breath on it wrong”
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“I tried using LFS as well but it didn't work for my specific workflow.”
“it is much easier to get yourself into a bad state with git-lfs than vanilla git”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- Version control second coming 3 mentions
- Epic Games announces Lore version control system 3 mentions
- Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store 1 mention
- Version Control for Everything 1 mention
- KOReader 1 mention
Also written as git-lfs. Data: git-lfs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“I've found LFS very brittle when bouncing between branches and moving around in history.”
“Git LFS is extremely brittle and will break your local check out if you so much as breath on it wrong”
“I use git+lfs for unity projects and it works out great.”
“There's Git LFS, that hooks up an object store (like S3) to git for large files.”
“I tried using LFS as well but it didn't work for my specific workflow.”
“My ebooks directory uses Git (with LFS) so I can update it from several computers.”
“it is much easier to get yourself into a bad state with git-lfs than vanilla git”
“we used Git LFS for a bit, but foud it unworkably clunky”
“The premise is that Git-LFS sucks”