From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B4E1F803 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:23:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728551AbfAHPXY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:23:24 -0500 Received: from mail.aixigo.de ([5.145.142.10]:11420 "EHLO mail.aixigo.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728075AbfAHPXX (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:23:23 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:23:23 EST Received: from srvvm01.ac.aixigo.de (mail.ac.aixigo.de [172.19.96.11]) by gate5a.ac.aixigo.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id 0e9ec144 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:16:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from dpcl082.ac.aixigo.de (dpcl082.ac.aixigo.de [172.19.97.128]) by srvvm01.ac.aixigo.de (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-8) with ESMTP id x08FGf8X2087719; Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:16:41 +0100 To: git@vger.kernel.org From: Harald Dunkel Subject: git-lfs integration? Message-ID: <79fd2b4e-243c-a9f5-3485-2954fb0f50ef@aixigo.de> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:16:41 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.100.2 at srvvm01.ac.aixigo.de X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Hi folks, I wonder why git-lfs is needed to efficiently handle large files in git. Would it be reasonable to integrate this functionality into the native git? Please excuse me asking. I read some pretty scary articles about rewriting history, asking everybody to clone existing repositories again, and strange errors if git-lfs is *not* installed. Apparently this is a one-way street, so I didn't dare to install git-lfs yet. Regards Harri