Git LFS Best Practice

git-lfs-best-practice.md

Tip: Git LFS space is limited, so please use it to manager REAL large files whose size is greater than 100MB.

Reading the official tutorial first

Git-LFS Tutorial

For an empty project

# init git
git init

# init lfs
git lfs install

# track specific file types
git lfs track *.fbx
git lfs track *.mp4

# lookup what types are tracked
git lfs track

# add .gitattributes file first
git add .gitattributes

# add other files
git add .

# commit 
git commit -m "this is the commit message"

# push
git push -u origin master

# Just in case, run the following and run `git push -u origin master` again
git lfs push origin master --all

For an existing project

For new files

Same as For an empty project

For those files already added in git

git lfs migrate import --include="*.fbx" --include-ref=refs/heads/master 

Remove file in git history

git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm -rf --cached --ignore-unmatch path_to_file" HEAD

Only track big files

Not working, I don't know why.

# track files which are greater than 100MB
find * -type f -size +100M -exec git lfs track --filename '{}' +

# add files which are greater than 100MB
find * -type f -size +100M -exec git add '{}' +

I researched and found that maybe git lfs did not support track specific files expected files like Assets/Model/*.fbx.

Fetch LFS objects after checkout or clone

# download
git lfs fetch

# revert to original file type
git lfs checkout

Uninstall Git LFS for some repo

Refer

One more thing

Git LFS tips and tricks