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Does Git LFS help with this problem?
by syndicatedjelly 3y ago
Does Git LFS help with this problem?
- robaato 3y agoHave seen various teams have major issues with LFS - becoming quite a support overhead to keep art teams productive.
- flohofwoe 3y agoYeah exactly this. Git LFS is supposed to fix the problem, but I haven't seen it working flawlessly either yet.
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoInteresting, I had issues using Git LFS to store images for my personal site. I thought I just didn't know how to use it properly...
- jzl 3y agoNot Git LFS, but Git VFS, now replaced by “Scalar”: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
- sireat 3y agoOverall LFS feels a very hacky tacked on solution with warts. Git LFS is horrible if you mistakenly add some file(s) to LFS. Restoring to LFS-less state is supposed to be easy but it is always very painful. There should be a way to tell repo - I do not want any LFS at all. In practice this is painful, and it is easier to start a new repo.... Also for some reason Github/Microsoft decided to "monetize" LFS. The freebie limits are 1GB for hosting AND transfer! Then the charges get very expensive. I am not sure why Github LFS is priced like some AWS S3 plan not OneDrive plan.
- vtbassmatt 3y agoGitHub charges for LFS and has since they initially introduced it, way before Microsoft was involved. Also, the pricing model is changing and will include a minimum of 10GiB for free (250GiB for Team/Enterprise customers). It’s cost-recovery and abuse-prevention, though, not some nefarious scheme. And funny you mention AWS S3... what costs might GitHub be recovering? ;) Microsoft’s homegrown LFS implementation (in Azure DevOps) does not and has never charged for LFS. It’s nice to have friends with a cloud blob storage service! Source: I was the product manager for Azure Repos’s LFS server and am currently the product manager for all things Git at GitHub.