Comment by andrewmcwatters
2 days ago
Using LFS once in a repository locks you in permanently. You actually have to delete the repository from GitHub to remove the space consumed. It’s entirely a non-starter.
Nowhere is this behavior explicitly stated.
I used to use Git LFS on GitHub to do my company’s study on GitHub statistics because we stored large compressed databases on users and repositories.
This conflates Git and Github. Github is crap, news at 11. Git itself is fine and LFS is an extension for Git. There is nothing in LFS spec that discusses storage billing. Anyone can write a better server
It does because overwhelmingly the usage of Git is through GitHub. Everything else is practically a rounding error. So it’s incredibly helpful to know that the most popular large file retrieval extension to Git on the most popular Git host will lock you in.
>overwhelmingly the usage of Git is through GitHub. Everything else is practically a rounding error
Is that true? I used git commercially in five companies, and I never used github commercially (except as a platform for projects we opensourced).
You already depend on github if you host your project there. But you're not locked in, because you can just close your github repo and migrate somewhere else. Do I miss something?
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That's very bad logic. By that logic Git sucks because Github sucks. I cringe every time people conflate it and if you know better then why... Just say Github sucks instead.