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6 git-lfs-clone - Efficiently clone a LFS-enabled repository
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9 git lfs clone [git clone options] repository [directory]
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12 Clone an LFS enabled Git repository more efficiently by disabling LFS
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16 ´git lfs clone´ also installs all of the repo-level hooks (.git/hooks)
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20 This is faster than a regular ´git clone´ because that will download
21 LFS content using the smudge filter, which is executed individually per
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23 the batch mode and parallel downloads performed by ´git lfs pull´.
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26 All options supported by ´git clone´
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28 -I paths --include=paths
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39 You can configure Git LFS to only fetch objects to satisfy references
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43 In lfsconfig, set lfs.fetchinclude and lfs.fetchexclude to comma-sepa‐
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49 git-clone(1), git-lfs-pull(1).
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51 Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.
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