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NAME

6       git-lfs-track - View or add Git LFS paths to Git attributes
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SYNOPSIS

9       git lfs track [options] [pattern...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Start tracking the given patterns(s) through Git LFS. The pattern argu‐
13       ment is written to .gitattributes. If no  paths  are  provided,  simply
14       list the currently-tracked paths.
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16       The  gitattributes documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes
17       states   that   patterns    use    the    gitignore    pattern    rules
18       https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore to match paths. This means that pat‐
19       terns which contain asterisk (*), question mark (?),  and  the  bracket
20       characters  ([  and  ]) are treated specially; to disable this behavior
21       and treat them literally instead, use --filename or escape the  charac‐
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OPTIONS

25       ○   --verbose  -v:  If  enabled,  have git lfs track log files which it
26           will touch. Disabled by default.
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28       ○   --dry-run -d: If enabled, have git lfs track  log  all  actions  it
29           would  normally  take  (adding  entries to .gitattributes, touching
30           files on disk, etc) without performing any mutative  operations  to
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33           git  lfs track --dry-run [files] also implicitly mocks the behavior
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39       ○   --filename  Treat  the  arguments as literal filenames, not as pat‐
40           terns. Any special glob characters in the filename will be  escaped
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43       ○   --lockable  -l  Make  the  paths ´lockable´, meaning they should be
44           locked to edit them, and will be made read-only in the working copy
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47       ○   --not-lockable  Remove the lockable flag from the paths so they are
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50       ○   --no-excluded Do not list patterns that are excluded in the output;
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53       ○   --no-modify-attrs  Makes matched entries stat-dirty so that Git can
54           re-index files you wish to convert to LFS. Does not modify any .gi‐
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EXAMPLES

60       List the patterns that Git LFS is currently tracking:
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66       Configure  Git  LFS  to  track PSD files and make them read-only unless
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70       Configure Git LFS to track the file named project [1].psd:
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SEE ALSO

74       git-lfs-untrack(1), git-lfs-install(1), gitattributes(5), gitignore(5).
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76       Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.
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