Is it possible to do Git LFS over SSH?
I've read documentation and it seems git only does auth over SSH in LFS push. Here:
they talk about how it is not supported
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4I think that link is out of date. (And it is a 3rd party community forum question, not Git documentation!) According to github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/main/docs/api/… LFS over SSH can be made to work, but it does require some configuration.Stephen C– Stephen C2022-02-24 01:54:50 +00:00Commented Feb 24, 2022 at 1:54
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Brian M. Carlson added full SSH support to git-lfs in version 3.0!
So you should be able to upgrade git and the git-lfs plugin and you'll be good to go!
Thank you @mstrap
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mstrap
This isn't correct anymore as of today: github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/1044
hobs
Thank you! I'll correct my answer.
In my experience, git LFS doesn't work to download LFS objects over ssh (i.e. git clone myuser@myserver:path/to/repo.git).
However, git LFS does work with locally-accessible directory-based clones (i.e. git clone /path/to/myrepo or git clone /path/to/bare-repo.git).
One possible solution is to mount the remote repository directory as a folder via, for example SSHFS, or Samba, or WebDAV, or any other networked file system driver. Then all you have to do is git clone it locally into your workspace.
Example using sshfs:
mkdir -p ~/.sshfs-mounts/mydevserver-testrepo
sshfs -o reconnect,idmap=user mydevserver:mygitrepos/testrepo ~/.sshfs-mounts/mydevserver-testrepo
git clone ~/.sshfs-mounts/mydevserver-testrepo ~/workspace/testrepo
Where:
mydevserveris your server network name or IPmygitrepos/testrepois the path relative to your home directory to your repo;~/mygitrepos/testrepo/.giton the remote server is the repo's git directory.~/workspace/testrepois where you want to work on the files
Pushes/LFS "smudges" should work normally.
