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Installer git-lfs avec Homebrew

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installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install git-lfs

provider-native install command

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Git extension for versioning large files

Commandes et alias

  • git-lfs

historique

Historique du projet et usages

Git LFS is the reference command-line implementation and specification for storing large file contents outside ordinary Git blobs while keeping small pointer files in the repository. It became one of the standard answers for repositories that need to version art assets, datasets, media, archives, and other large binaries without making every clone carry every large object as normal Git history.

Historique du projet

The public git-lfs repository was created in 2013, and the changelog records v0.5.0 in April 2015 as the initial public release. The official specification preserves a clue from the pre-release era by documenting legacy pointer files that used a `hawser.github.com` version URL before the `git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1` pointer URL.

Git LFS reached v1.0.0 in October 2015. Before that milestone, v0.6.0 switched the client to the Batch API by default while retaining fallback to the legacy API. The 2.x line later removed old APIs and added features such as `git lfs migrate`, which rewrites history to convert large Git blobs into LFS objects.

Historique d'adoption

Git LFS matters because it is both a Git extension and a protocol/specification surface. The README describes pre-built binaries for macOS, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD, Homebrew installation, Debian and RPM packages, Chocolatey installation, and inclusion in Git for Windows. That distribution footprint helped make LFS available to designers, game teams, data projects, and software teams using hosted Git services.

The project also has a maintainer model around a core team and alumni, public releases with signed hashes, official command documentation, an FAQ, and implementation notes. Those are signs of infrastructure-level Git tooling rather than a one-off helper script.

Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners run `git lfs install` once to configure clean and smudge filters, use `git lfs track` to add patterns to `.gitattributes`, commit that attributes file, and then add and push files as usual. Git LFS writes pointer files into Git and stores object contents under the LFS object store, uploading LFS objects before the Git push completes.

`git lfs migrate` is used when large files already exist in history and need to be moved into LFS, with the usual history-rewrite consequences. Operators also use `git lfs env`, tracing, signed release verification, and the command manpages when debugging installs or server interactions.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Git LFS is package-nerd significant because it is a CLI, a Git filter integration, and a wire-format specification in one package. It shows how a package can become part of the developer-tooling substrate: package managers distribute the binary, Git invokes it through filters and hooks, and hosting platforms implement the matching storage API.

Chronologie

  • 2013: Public GitHub repository created.
  • 2015: v0.5.0 marked the initial public release.
  • 2015: v0.6.0 used the Batch API by default.
  • 2015: v1.0.0 released.
  • 2017: v2.0.0 removed legacy APIs.
  • 2017: v2.2.0 added `git lfs migrate`.

Related projects

  • Git LFS relates to Git attributes, clean and smudge filters, Git for Windows, and hosted Git LFS server implementations. Its problem space overlaps with artifact repositories and data-versioning tools, but its distinctive feature is that ordinary Git commits retain pointer files while large object transfer is handled out of band.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

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Revue recommandée

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local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
.lfsconfig.gitattributes.git/config~/.gitconfig/etc/gitconfig

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
git-lfsexécutableexécutable indexéDécouvert depuis l'index local des exécutables.

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-08-03
version du gestionnaire3.7.1
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesinconnu
amontnon disponible
dernière version détectéenon détecté
  • OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:git-lfs
Version3.7.1
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page d'accueilhttps://git-lfs.com/
Dépôthttps://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs
Bouteillenon enregistré
Serviceaucun déclaré

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Sources utilisées

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • pkgdb category and tag curation