Commit 1856178c authored by Evan Read's avatar Evan Read

Merge branch 'ashmckenzie/improve-git-lfs-docs' into 'master'

Improve git-lfs migrate steps

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!38862
parents 08087557 acf5e92f
......@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ Consider an example upstream project, `git@gitlab.com:gitlab-tests/test-git-lfs-
1. Clean up the repository:
```shell
# cd path/to/mirror/repo:
# Change into the mirror repo directory:
cd test-git-lfs-repo-migration.git
# clean up the repo:
# Clean up the repo:
git reflog expire --expire=now --all && git gc --prune=now --aggressive
```
......@@ -128,12 +129,23 @@ Consider an example upstream project, `git@gitlab.com:gitlab-tests/test-git-lfs-
1. Track the files you want with LFS:
```shell
# cd path/to/upstream/repo:
# Change into the /tmp directory
cd /tmp
# Clone the repo
git clone git@gitlab.com:gitlab-tests/test-git-lfs-repo-migration.git
# Change into the upstream repo directory:
cd test-git-lfs-repo-migration
# You may need to reset your local copy with upstream's `master` after force-pushing from the mirror:
git reset --hard origin/master
# Track the files with LFS:
git lfs track "*.gif" "*.png" "*.jpg" "*.psd" "*.mp4" "img/"
# Push up changes to .gitattributes
git add .gitattributes && git commit -m 'Track .gif,.png,.jpg,.psd,.mp4 and img/' && git push
```
Now all existing the files you converted, as well as the new
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