My project timeouts during checking out repository because of taking too much time(>30min) to download a lot of files under control of git-lfs. I tried to find out how to tell CircleCI stop using git-lfs but no luck. Since checkout can’t be succeeded, even circle.yml seems not be loaded. (And whe…

Hello Shimada-san, I found your ticket in zendesk and will respond there. Best, Zak

I’m having this problem too. How do I get help with it? It would be helpful if this discussion included details about the outcome so others can benefit.

We are also having this problem. We opened a support request, but haven’t heard back yet. We’ve temporarily switched back to the Ubuntu 12 container as a workaround, but would love to get back on 14.

Discussion with support is still ongoing. I’ve claimed that there’s something wrong with git-lfs but looks like they think different way(like repository is too big, etc…)

In our case, we think this is caused by having many files in LFS ( https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/931 ).

Yes, I also have many files in git-lfs and I know it’s very slow. However, when I looked into the build log, git-lfs in the container behaved like “stuck” instead of “slow”. I guess some constant networking issue is there between CircleCI and Git LFS. I know that this kind of issue takes a lot …

I was able to figure out what my issue was and now git lfs is working for me in CircleCI. This may not apply to you, but it’s something you can check. When I checked out the repo separate from CircleCI I noticed some of the files I was tracking with LFS gave an error message “Pointer file error: U…

I tried to check out my repo in my local machine with setting env vars you suggested but unfortunately no any signs of error were shown. So it looks I still need to find out how to escape from git-lfs in circleci build env. Anyway thanks for valuable information.

It seems like the slow clone problem could be worked around if Circle CI incorporated the following into their clone command: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://github.com/username/my_lfs_repo.git destination_dir git lfs pull [image] git-lfs/git-lfs git-lfs - Git extension for versi…

Thanks everyone for your feedback here. Git LFS was added in our most recent image update. Ubuntu 14.04 Build Image Update 201701-01 @kimh since this effecting so many users, is there a way to make this either an optional service or remove it altogether in the next image update?

Is there any way to disable git-lfs in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) image?

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shimarin March 9, 2017, 7:36am 12

Any updates on this issue? I still am waiting for git-lfs to be optional…

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Is there any way to disable git-lfs in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) image?

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