Git LFS
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What is Git LFS?
Git Large File Storage (LFS) is an extension that helps manage large files by tracking metadata, not storing entire files. It allows storing and tracking binary assets like images, videos, audio files separately from your regular Git repository. By storing only metadata in your Git repository, you improve clone and push times, reducing storage usage. This approach is particularly useful for media repositories, large dataset storage, and binary asset management in game development. Note that Git LFS requires a separate server or storage system to store actual file content.
Free resources to learn Git LFS
More in stage 22: Creating Apps
- Creating Apps
- GitHub Apps
- OAuth Apps
- Git Reflog
- Git Bisect
- Git Worktree
- Git Attributes
- Installation and Setup
- Repository management
- Issue Management
- Pull Requests
- Use in Automation
- YAML Syntax
- Workflow Triggers
- Scheduled Worfklows
- Workflow Runners
- Workflow Context
- Secrets and Env Vars
- Caching Dependencies
- Storing Artifacts
- Workflow Status
- Marketplace Actions
Git LFS: common questions
Can I learn Git LFS in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Git LFS in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Git LFS tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 120 of 155 in the free Git and GitHub roadmap, in stage 22, Creating Apps. If you are new to Git and GitHub, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.