porting project with large files (git-lfs) from github

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 26 08:10:38 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:04:41PM -0700, Robert wrote:
> Hi, I'm porting something hosted on github using GH_... options in Makefile.
> 
> FreeBSD tries to fetch a tar.gz archive from https://codeload.github.com and
> within such archive there are "large files" which contain something like:
> 
> version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
> oid sha256:e8f293258e38e9689cb87ffbb91c3de2c339a6c074c77115ca86d50b5a48bc64
> size 20413048
> 
> instead of a real data, so build fails.
> 
> What's the best way to resolve this issue?

Mmmm, I never tried a repository using git-lfs, I am not surprised
git-archive(1) does not work with it though.  What is the project so I
can have a look?

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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