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Re: Git Question

From
Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@github.com>
Date
Mar 29, 2018, 01:58 UTC
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<20180329015848.GA82123@syl.local>
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<CA263ADB-E23D-4C75-ACDC-C9C0B75A4A85@gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:49:19PM -0500, Mark Wartman wrote:
> I am following this tutorial and I expected to only see user.name &
> user.email, so what are the filters.lfs’s and the credential.helper?
> Should I ignore them, or try to get rid of them?  Please advise.

The `filter.lfs` configuration is set by Git LFS [1] in order to correctly filter large files into your working copy.

You can safely ignore these, or remove them if you are not using Git LFS.

> What is the best way to upgrade to a newer stable version of git?

On macOS, you can use Homebrew [2] to install any version of Git. Install the latest via:

  brew update && brew install git

Thanks, Taylor

[1]: https://git-lfs.github.com [2]: https://brew.sh

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