LFS for Enterprises
Description
Large enterprises that deal with a lot of binaries in their repositories struggle to move to Git, as its large file support is lacking. We should help them move to Git LFS and make sure LFS is easy and scalable to use.
Proposal
We recently launched object storage for LFS.
The next steps:
- make it easier to see and index what is / isn't in LFS https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15567
- support Git LFS 2 (incl file locking) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35856, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1830
- offer a migration tool to move repositories to LFS (Bitbucket has a great tutorial on this)
Roadmap:
- mirror LFS objects https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/1290
- archive includes LFS objects https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14261
- blocked:
git archive
doesn't support this,git lfs archive
is a possible LFS roadmap candidate https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/ROADMAP.md
- blocked:
Ideas:
- custom Git LFS media adapter https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26793
Links / references
Documentation blurb
Overview
What is it? Why should someone use this feature? What is the underlying (business) problem? How do you use this feature?
Use cases
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Feature checklist
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