Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Install git-lfs in MacOS

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

1. Download git-lfs from https://git-lfs.github.com/
2. Extract tarball: $tar zxvf git-lfs-darwin-amd64-v2.10.0.tar.gz 
3. Run install script: $sudo ./install.sh
4. Allow git-lfs app from Menu > System Preferences > Security & Privacy > allow git-lfs
5. Intsall git-lfs from git: $git lfs install