git-lfs-clone
- Efficiently clone a LFS-enabled repository
git lfs clone
[git clone options] repository [directory]
Clone an LFS enabled Git repository more efficiently by disabling LFS during the git clone, then performing a 'git lfs pull' directly afterwards.
'git lfs clone' also installs all of the repo-level hooks (.git/hooks) that LFS
requires to operate. If --separate-git-dir
is given, the hooks will be
installed there.
This is faster than a regular 'git clone' because that will download LFS content using the smudge filter, which is executed individually per file in the working copy. This is relatively inefficient compared to the batch mode and parallel downloads performed by 'git lfs pull'.
All options supported by 'git clone'
-I
paths --include=
paths
-X
paths --exclude=
paths
--skip-repo
You can configure Git LFS to only fetch objects to satisfy references in certain paths of the repo, and/or to exclude certain paths of the repo, to reduce the time you spend downloading things you do not use.
In your Git configuration or in a .lfsconfig
file, you may set either or
both of lfs.fetchinclude
and lfs.fetchexclude
to comma-separated lists of
paths. If lfs.fetchinclude
is defined, Git LFS objects will only be fetched
if their path matches one in that list, and if lfs.fetchexclude
is defined,
Git LFS objects will only be fetched if their path does not match one
in that list. Paths are matched using wildcard matching as per gitignore(5).
Note that using the command-line options -I
and -X
override the respective
configuration settings. Setting either option to an empty string clears the
value.
git-clone(1), git-lfs-pull(1), gitignore(5).
Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.