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

Ideas:

• custom Git LFS media adapter https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26793

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Overview

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Use cases

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Feature checklist

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• Feature assurance
• Documentation
• Added to features.yml