NAME¶

git-lfs-clone - Efficiently clone a LFS-enabled repository

SYNOPSIS¶

git lfs clone [git clone options] <repository> [<directory>]

DESCRIPTION¶

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'.

OPTIONS¶

All options supported by 'git clone'

-I <paths>, --include=<paths>

-X <paths>, --exclude=<paths>

--skip-repo

INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE¶

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.

SEE ALSO¶

git-clone(1), git-lfs-pull(1), gitignore(5).

Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.