

psd file, enter the following command: $ git lfs track "*.psd"Įvery file type you want to associate with Git LFS will need to be added with git lfs track. ARFC Git Large File Storage is quite large, but be respectful to your colleagues and make sure you store only valuable data of reasonable (100Mb-5Gb) size. Managing large files such as audio, video and graphics files has always been one of the shortcomings of Git. These files can be plain text or binaries. To associate a file type in your repository with Git LFS, enter git lfs track followed by the name of the file extension you want to automatically upload to Git LFS.įor example, to associate a. Git LFS can be used when you want to version large files, usually, valuable output data, which is larger than Github limit (100Mb). For more information, see " Resolving Git Large File Storage upload failures."Ĭhange your current working directory to an existing repository you'd like to use with Git LFS.

Only a reference to the file is stored in git tracking the changes. If there are referenced Git LFS files that did not upload successfully, you will receive an error message. For special cases we support GIT LFS for large file storage outside of the git index.

For more information, see " Moving a file in your repository to Git Large File Storage." If there are existing files in your repository that you'd like to use GitHub with, you need to first remove them from the repository and then add them to Git LFS locally.
