A lightweight Git Large File Storage fetcher written in python.
This module cannot fully replace the official git-lfs client, it only knows how to download the files, cache them (the same way the official client does), and place them in a checkout directory. Uploading files is not implemented at all.
pip install git-lfs
python-git-lfs is compatible with python 2 and 3.
Basic: simply run python -m git_lfs in a normal Git repository.
Advanced::
python -m git_lfs [-h] [-v] [git_repo] [checkout_dir]
positional arguments:
git_repo if it's bare you need to provide a checkout_dir
checkout_dir
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose
CC0 Public Domain Dedication <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>_
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A lightweight Git Large File Storage fetcher
We found that git-lfs demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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