30.05 git LFS

intro

When starting 10.03 Project Betacraft Explorer I got to a problem, I wanted to backup my Minecraft world. But Minecraft worlds can become quite big, and if I remember correctly are binary files. So normal git wouldn’t be the best practice.

But then someone pointed me toward Git LFS

What

Git LFS is a way to store large files in your git repo, kinda. It doesn’t really store your assets like the bee movie inside your git repo anymore. Instead it stores the pointers to the file, and the file itself is stored somewhere else.

How

github limits

I have found this video:

1. go to https://git-lfs.com
2. install it
3. open your github repo
4. add your massive file, for example: the bee movie.mov
5. then open the console in the root folder
6. type git lfs install
7. type git lfs track "*.mov" if you want to track every .mov
8. type git config lfs.threshold 5m to set the global threshold to max 5mb
9. and just commit as usual

this repo

This repo has every .pdf tracked, + every file above 4mb