You can set git-lfs to automatically checkout your LFS operations on clone; That's a setting. Yes, they're outside the repo - But not far off. It's the same ma

You can set git-lfs to automatically checkout your LFS operations on clone; That's a setting. Yes, they're outside the repo - But not far off. It's the same magic you want to do; Really and truly, there's magic there, but it's a pretty thin and well defined layer of magic.