lfs-folderstore

Your comment about Git LFS is intriguing. I have been put off from using git lfs because of the perception I needed a separate server to backup the binary files. I had heard of tools like lfs-folderstore (1). That no longer seems maintained and seems to be an extra service. Did git lfs integrate the lfs-folderstore ideas so it doesn't need them? [1] https://github.com/sinbad/lfs-folderstore

I've been running git lfs without a webserver on my local NAS with lfs-folderstore[0] without a problem, and it doesn't require a webserver (and can also be used over SSH via sshfs). I can understand wanting such functionality bundled with git lfs, but all the different options seem very opinionated to me in ways that there isn't a clear "default" choice. To me custom transfer agents and transports never felt like an afterthought, and fit quite nicely into there. My main problems with git lfs were more UX problems where certain workloads are not as well supported (e.g. keeping only a portion of the LFS files local). [0]: https://github.com/sinbad/lfs-folderstore

Not sure how well if fits your use-case, but I've been very happy with git-lfs in combination with a NAS I have at home. The NAS is just mounted as a normal network drive and available to use with LFS via lfs-filestore[0] and available on the go via the builtin DynDNS + VPC of the NAS. I've been using it for a repo where I store all my university/academic stuff like lectures (recordings), PDFs of books and papers, Anki decks, etc., and it has now grown to be ~120GB big. Biggest issue was that I'm always running low on disk space with my laptop, and git-lfs doesn't have a good built-in way to only checkout part of the files on your machine, so I built a small tool to make that easier[1]. Since I've been using that it's been a pretty smooth ride. [0]: https://github.com/sinbad/lfs-folderstore [1]: https://github.com/hobofan/lfs-unload