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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.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • FreeBSD
  • Git
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  1. Git icon  Git Support
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  File Versioning
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Team Collaboration
  7.  Distributed Computing
  8.  Distributed

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What is Git LFS?

Git LFS is a system for managing and versioning large files in association with a Git repository. Instead of storing the large files within the Git repository as blobs, Git LFS stores special "pointer files" in the repository, while storing the actual file contents on a Git LFS server. The contents of the large file are downloaded automatically when needed, for example when a Git branch containing the large file is checked out.

Git LFS works by using a "smudge" filter to look up the large file contents based on the pointer file, and a "clean" filter to create a new version of the pointer file when the large file’s contents change. It also uses a pre-push hook to upload the large file contents to the Git LFS server whenever a commit containing a new large file version is about to be pushed to the corresponding Git server.