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Enable LFS (Large File Storage) in GitLab

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Refer to official docs: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.html

Requirements​

  • Git LFS is supported in GitLab starting with version 8.2
  • Git LFS must be enabled under project settings
  • Git LFS client version 1.0.1 and up

1. Enable LFS on GitLab Server​

a). Configuration for Omnibus installations In​

/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:

# Change to true to enable lfs - enabled by default if not defined
gitlab_rails['lfs_enabled]=false

# Optionally, change the storage path location. Defaults to
# `#{gitlab_rails['shared_path']}/lfs-objects`. Which evaluates to
# `/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/lfs-objects` by default.
gitlab_rails['lfs_storage_path']"/mnt/storage/lfs-objects"

b). Configuration for installations from source In​

config/gitlab.yml:

# Change to true to enable lfs
  lfs:
    enabled: false
    storage_path:/mnt/storage/lfs-objects

2. Submit LFS object to Git project Initialize LFS support in the project, and mark the file extensions for tracking as LFS object:​

$ git clone [email protected]:group/project.git
$ git lfs <span class="nb">install</span> <span class="c"># initialize the Git LFS project
</span>$ git lfs track <span class="s2">"*.out" "*.so" "*.dll" "*.meta" "*.dat" "/bin/**"</span> <span class="c"># select the file extensions that you want to treat as large files
</span>

Details for lfs track partten please refer to : https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore#_pattern_format

Make sure that .gitattributes is tracked by Git. Otherwise Git LFS will not be working properly for people cloning the project:

$ git add .gitattributes
$ git commit -m "Submit lfs settings"
$ git push -u origin master

An LFS icon is shown on files tracked by Git LFS to denote if a file is stored as a blob or as an LFS pointer. Example:

3. Pull LFS object from Git project Other user need to install git-lfs package and execute git lfs pull after clone the prjoect:​

$ git clone [email protected]:group/project.git
$ git lfs pull

General "git pull" will only download index data of LFS object:

# cat appframed.out
version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
oid sha256:e8eef08ead6e6f3ad021ba798b35d2da59f804e9dbe8aace7ed4b66d3ede1054
size 6766944

In jenkins, it needs to enable "

Git LFS pull after checkout" addtional behavior for Git repo.

Configuring GitLab external URL

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Configuring the external URL for GitLab In order for GitLab to display correct repository clone links to your users it needs to know the URL under which it is reached by your users, e.g. http://gitlab.example.com. Add or edit the following line in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:

external_url "http://gitlab.example.com"

Run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure for the change to take effect.

then restart GitLab: sudo gitlab-ctl restart

Refers:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/settings/configuration.md#configuring-the-external-url-for-gitlab

https://forum.gitlab.com/t/change-domain-name/1174/2

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