Comment by gradientsrneat

> LFS does break disconnected/offline/sneakernet operations which wasn't mentioned and is not awesome

Yea, I had the same thought. And TBD on large object promisors.

Git annex is somewhat more decentralized as it can track the presence of large files across different remotes. And it can pull large files from filesystem repos such as USB drives. The downside is that it's much more complicated and difficult to use. Some code forges used to support it, but support has since been dropped.