Installing git-lfs

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This page contains out of date information!! git-lfs is pre-installed in Ubuntu 14.04 so users don’t have to install manually.

We don’t pre-install git-lfs but will do in the future container image release. In the meantime, you can install by your own.

dependencies:
  override:
    # Install git-lfs
    - curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
    - sudo apt-get install git-lfs=1.1.0
    - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate <user>/<project>.git download

Please replace <user>/<project> with your own in order to authenticate git-lfs.

As of Dec 2015, git-lfs doesn’t support a deployment key, which CircleCI uses by default to checkout your repo, so you need to add a user key.

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I tried it this way for a private repository, but git existed with code 1:

Deploy keys can not access Git LFS objects on private repositories Action failed: ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate xxx/yyy.git download

Digging around it looks like it’s because Git LFS does not support deploy keys yet: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/issues/716#issuecomment-146251920

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@moret

Git LFS does not support deploy keys yet

That’s correct. I’ll modify my original post to use a user key.

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For iOS (OS X containers) usage of the above script results in the following error:

Unfortunately, your operating system distribution and version are not supported by this script.

You can override the OS detection by setting os= and dist= prior to running this script.
You can find a list of supported OSes and distributions on our website: packagecloud Documentation - Documentation for the Command-Line Interface (CLI) and automation tools

For example, to force Ubuntu Trusty: os=ubuntu dist=trusty ./script.sh

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash returned exit code 1

Instead you can use homebrew to install git-lfs like this:

dependencies:
  override:
    # Install git-lfs
    - brew install git-lfs
    - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate <user>/<project>.git download
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I installed git-lfs with the above instrucitons. However, the large file in my repo is still not downloaded.
Tried with these commands:

dependencies:
    override:
      # Install git-lfs
      - curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
      - sudo apt-get install git-lfs=1.1.0
      - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate <user>/<project>.git download
      - git lfs fetch
      - rm large_file
      - git checkout large_file

The large_file is still just a small text pointer file and the actual file is not downloaded.

fetch output:

git lfs fetch
Fetching dev

Git LFS: (0 of 1 files) 0 B / 294.43 MB

Git LFS: (0 of 1 files) 0 B / 294.43 MB

Any tips on how to trigger the download?

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Solution was to use git lfs pull instead of git lfs fetch

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I’m using trying to use git lfs pull with no result neither… :cry:

ubuntu@box84:~/vreasy$ git lfs pull Git LFS: (0 of 899 files) 0 B / 23.97 MB exit status 1 exit status 1 ubuntu@box84:~/vreasy$ git lfs fetch Fetching packaging-npm-deps Git LFS: (0 of 899 files) 0 B / 23.97 MB exit status 1 exit status 1

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Ok, so this was an issue within github and in particular with the ssh git-lfs-authenticate command. I raised a support ticket to them and it is now fixed!

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Our iOS project fails because brew install git-lfs fails, complaining:

$ brew install git-lfs
Error: You must `brew unpin go` as installing git-lfs requires the latest version of pinned dependencies

brew install git-lfs returned exit code 1

Action failed: brew install git-lfs`

I am using the suggested solution, unpinning go, but it’d be nice if that wasn’t necessary.

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my git lfs pull command always fails with the following message:

With git lfs v1.1.0 the process would fail silently, with v1.2.1 it quits circle ci

git lfs pull
Git LFS: (0 of 2 files, 2 skipped) 0 B / 723.49 KB, 723.49 KB skipped          
[404] Object does not exist on the server
[07fa5fc50d71851a2b1143d75c0e63106d34248bdab2fac57637b9d98ed5edb9] Object does not exist on the server

git lfs pull returned exit code 2

Action failed: git lfs pull

the circleci.yml file looks like :

dependencies:
  pre:
    - curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
    - sudo apt-get install git-lfs=1.2.1
    - ssh git@github.com git-lfs-authenticate username/repo.git download
    - git lfs pull
    - git lfs pull

Is anyone able to point me in the right direction?

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It seems like these instructions to install git-lfs in dependencies is out of date. It seems git-lfs is already installed now in CircleCI (Ubuntu 14.04 Build Image Update 201701-01). This page should probably be deleted or an update should be put at the top because it’s pretty confusing otherwise.