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UPDATE : With current versions of git, I no longer recommend git annex or git LFS unless you really need to store your large files on a separate server from your git repository. Just add your large files to git like any other file and when you clone, you can avoid downloading the full repository history with git clone --filter=blob:none and use git as normal. Table of Contents How To Retroactively Annex Files Already in a Git Repo First Tries: filter-branch, filter-repo Success with git rebase –interactive Added binary files Deleted binary files Modified binary files Moved binary files Dealing with Tags Clean Up and Results How To Retroactively Annex Files Already in a Git Repo In my last post I talked about how surprisingly easy it is to use git annex to manage your large binary files (or even small ones). In this post, I'm going to show how hard it is to go back and fix the mistake you made when you decided not to learn and use git annex at the start of your p...

UPDATE : With current versions of git, I no longer recommend git annex or git LFS unless you really need to store your large files on a separate server from your git repository. For the simple use I describe here, just add your large files to git like any other file and when you clone, you can avoid downloading the full repository history with git clone --filter=blob:none and use git as normal. I'm developing the website for my business and I have a mix of code an images in my git repository. Since everyone seems to know that you shouldn't keep large binary files in your git repo, I decide to see what the current solutions to that problem are. After doing a little bit of searching, I narrowed things down to git lfs and git annex . Git lfs looks so nice and simple, except I'm not using github. Sure, you can set up your own central git lfs server yourself, but that sounded suddenly not so nice and simple. The website for git annex immediately hits you with all the ...