Discovering -Git LFS-

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While working on a real project, I pushed some heavy content and got back this unwanted error message:

This indicates that the max file size you can push using git can’t exceed 100MO.

Git size limits — Account Management | FAQs & Technical Support | Nulab

So, what to do in this case?

After some research, I’ve found a masterpiece that helped me efficiently resolve the issue without any new command system or new technology, thanks to Git for its rich system.

Git LFS:

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

Git Large File Storage

GIF Image | Git LFS process

The process:

Without diving deep into the sea of details, let’s discover the process step by step by showing you my personal use case.

• Create GitHub Repository

Create remote repo

• Initialize Git Local Repository

Local Repo

• Connect Local to Remote & push changes

trying to push

Note:

As you can notice here my file exceeds 100MO so, we can’t push it to the remote server using the normal Git System.

• Integrate Git LFS

Add git lfs to our local repo

git lfs install : set up Git LFS for your user account
git lfs track "*.dll" : select the file types you'd like Git LFS to manage (or directly edit your .gitattributes)
git add .gitattributes : make sure .gitattributes is tracked

• Push to remote

Push to remote

git lfs migrate import :  Convert Git objects to Git LFS pointers
git add . : Add current files to staging area
git commit : Commit changes
git push -u origin main : push main branch to github remote repository[origin]

• Check remote repository

Remote repo

That’s all for this article, stay tuned for my upcoming articles in which I’ll cover more advanced topics.

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