git-lfs question

John Sullivan· Apr 11, 2018, 01:16 UTC · lore

Hello - I've seen instructions that say after installing git to also install git-lfs. But today when installing git I noticed that in the install options there was a default selected options stating "Git LFS (Large File Support)".

Does this mean git is automatically adding git-LFS or just adding support for it and I'll still need to install git-lfs afterwards?

Thanks, John

Taylor Blau· Apr 11, 2018, 01:37 UTC · re: John Sullivan · lore

Re: git-lfs question

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 01:16:42AM +0000, John Sullivan wrote:

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> Hello - I've seen instructions that say after installing git to also install git-lfs.
>
> But today when installing git I noticed that in the install options
> there was a default selected options stating "Git LFS (Large File
> Support)".
>
> Does this mean git is automatically adding git-LFS or just adding
> support for it and I'll still need to install git-lfs afterwards?

If you're using Git for Windows, it will install Git LFS as well by default. Of course, you can opt-out of this if it's not something that you want :-).

This is not the case on other platforms, to the best of my knowledge.

Thanks, Taylor