NAME

       git-lfs-clone - Efficiently clone a LFS-enabled repository

SYNOPSIS

       git lfs clone [git clone options] repository [directory]

DESCRIPTION

       Clone  an  LFS  enabled  Git  repository  more  efficiently  by  disabling LFS during the git clone, then
       performing a ´git lfs pull´ directly afterwards.

       ´git lfs clone´ also installs all of the repo-level hooks (.git/hooks) that LFS requires to  operate.  If
       --separate-git-dir is given, the hooks will be installed there.

       This is faster than a regular ´git clone´ because that will download LFS content using the smudge filter,
       which is executed individually per file in the working copy. This is relatively inefficient  compared  to
       the batch mode and parallel downloads performed by ´git lfs pull´.

OPTIONS

       All options supported by ´git clone´

       -I paths --include=paths
              See #INCLUDE-AND-EXCLUDE

       -X paths --exclude=paths
              See #INCLUDE-AND-EXCLUDE

       --skip-repo
              Skip installing repo-level hooks (.git/hooks) that LFS requires. Disabled by default.

INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE

       You  can  configure  Git  LFS  to  only fetch objects to satisfy references in certain paths of the repo,
       and/or to exclude certain paths of the repo, to reduce the time you spend downloading things you  do  not
       use.

       In   lfsconfig,   set  lfs.fetchinclude  and  lfs.fetchexclude  to  comma-separated  lists  of  paths  to
       include/exclude in the fetch (wildcard matching as per  gitignore).  Only  paths  which  are  matched  by
       fetchinclude and not matched by fetchexclude will have objects fetched for them.

SEE ALSO

       git-clone(1), git-lfs-pull(1).

       Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.

                                                  December 2019                                 GIT-LFS-CLONE(1)