Shallow clones are the term. It used to be that you couldn't pull remote changes or push local changes to/from a shallow clone, but that was fixed with v1.9 (ea

Shallow clones are the term. It used to be that you couldn't pull remote changes or push local changes to/from a shallow clone, but that was fixed with v1.9 (early 2014). I'm not sure how LFS interacts with shallow clones though, as it's really a separate system that works in tandem with git more than a part of git itself.