Comment by bogwog

Maybe a manual filter isn't the right solution, but this does seem to add a lot of missing pieces.

The first time you try to commit on a new install, git nags you to set your email address and name. I could see something similar happen the first time you clone a repo that hits the default global filter size, with instructions on how to disable it globally.

> The cloned repo might not be compilable/usable since the blobs are missing.

Maybe I misunderstood the article, but isn't the point of the filter to prevent downloading the full history of big files, and instead only check out the required version (like LFS does).

So a filter of 1 byte will always give you a working tree, but trying to checkout a prior commit will require a full download of all files.