Git lfs files not downloaded

LFS files are failing to download from forks. The only reason I can't repro on try. Note that we are pretty sure this used to work on our Gitea installation months ago, so it may be caused by a relatively recent Gitea version maybe 1. Now clone the base repo somewhere else and try to either pull from the remote or the PR ref:. This is important because when running git lfs fetch --all we see that it is trying to pull from the base org, not the fork:.

The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Sorry, something went wrong. Are you sure that worked before? After creating the PR the base repository contains the dangling pointer without the database reference:. During 1. And that functionality was never implemented I think.

Looks like, I was wrong. I tested 1. Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account. How can I "refresh" my local repository so that git-lfs replaces the text pointers with the actual files? This is especially problematic on Travis: the repository is cloned before everything, so I have to install git-lfs and then somehow refresh the repository.

I have tried many things init, pull, checkout, … without success…. The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Sorry for the trouble, right now it's a little inelegant. One way around it is to just remove the pointer files then do a git checkout. Active 1 month ago. Viewed 2k times. When I do git lfs clone it will be correct. I'm really confused what is going on here?

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Git LFS effectively and where to use it. Recommended read: Git stash command. Git is a great tool but we have to acknowledge that it is not perfect no software is. Git faces the following issues while handling large and binary files:. These problems seem pretty obvious and there is no perfect solution yet to handle them.

There are some workarounds and hacks that can be used to get rid of such problems. Git LFS which is an open-source extension of git employs some workarounds to make your git experience with large files smoother.

But how exactly does it do it? Git LFS uses the lazy pull and fetch for downloading the files and their different versions.