Gregory Brown • 5/12/2021

Why You Shouldn't Use Git LFS

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This technical article details the author's reasons for avoiding Git LFS. It argues that LFS is a stop-gap solution for Git's large file handling, which will likely be natively improved. More critically, adopting or removing LFS requires rewriting Git history, an irreversible and expensive operation that changes commit SHAs, locking projects into a dependency on an LFS server or a future disruptive migration.

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