NAME

       git-lfs-clone - Efficiently clone a LFS-enabled repository

SYNOPSIS

       git lfs clone [git clone options] repository [directory]

DESCRIPTION

       Clone  an  LFS  enabled  Git  repository  more  efficiently  by  disabling LFS during the git clone, then
       performing a 'git lfs pull' directly afterwards.

       'git lfs clone' also installs all of the repo-level hooks (.git/hooks) that LFS requires to  operate.  If
       --separate-git-dir is given, the hooks will be installed there.

       This is faster than a regular 'git clone' because that will download LFS content using the smudge filter,
       which  is  executed individually per file in the working copy. This is relatively inefficient compared to
       the batch mode and parallel downloads performed by 'git lfs pull'.

OPTIONS

       All options supported by 'git clone'

       -I paths --include=paths
              See INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE

       -X paths --exclude=paths
              See INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE

       --skip-repo
              Skip installing repo-level hooks (.git/hooks) that LFS requires. Disabled by default.

INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE

       You can configure Git LFS to only fetch objects to satisfy references  in  certain  paths  of  the  repo,
       and/or  to  exclude certain paths of the repo, to reduce the time you spend downloading things you do not
       use.

       In  lfsconfig,  set  lfs.fetchinclude  and  lfs.fetchexclude  to  comma-separated  lists  of   paths   to
       include/exclude  in  the  fetch  (wildcard  matching  as  per gitignore). Only paths which are matched by
       fetchinclude and not matched by fetchexclude will have objects fetched for them.

       Note that using the command-line options -I and -X override the respective configuration settings.

SEE ALSO

       git-clone(1), git-lfs-pull(1).

       Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.

                                                  November 2024                                 GIT-LFS-CLONE(1)