I used this yesterday to move 400 MB of binary files from a repo on github to git-lfs. Works great. The workflow was roughly: - cp *.mov (and a few other l

I used this yesterday to move 400 MB of binary files from a repo on github to git-lfs. Works great. The workflow was roughly: - cp *.mov (and a few other large blob types) ~/tmp - git rm *.mov - git commit - git lfs track *.mov - git add .gitattributes - git commit; git push In a fresh directory: - git clone --mirror $remote; cd repo - bfg --delete-files '*.mov' - git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive - git push Back to my src directory: - mv repo repo.bloated - git clone $remote; cd repo - cp ~/tmp/*.mov . - git add *.mov (it now puts them in lfs) - git commit; git push Kind of a chore to figure out, but now my repo is small and zippy. Tip: do this on a cloud machine instead of your laptop, since most of the time is pulling/pushing data to github.