Git LFS

Git Large File Storage (LFS)

Git is inefficient when dealing with large files. To solve this problem there is an extension for large file storage (LFS).

On Debian, install the package git-lfs.

Once the extension is installed, files to be managed can be tracked via git lfs instead of being treated like standard git files.

To track large NumPy array files ending with .npy, run

$ git lfs track *.npy

Check that .gitattributes has been created, then add and commit it.

$ git add .gitattributes
$ git commit -m "track *.npy using git lfs"