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Use of git lfs clone

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Daniel Russel

12 Sep, 2016 10:51 PM

The clone phase of our repo takes quite a while due to lfs files. Using `git lfs clone` is supposed to make this a lot faster, but there does not seem to be a way to do this in appveyor. Is there some way to do this? If not, it would be nice to have it done by default (as I think it is harmless) or at least as an option. Thanks.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 14 Sep, 2016 02:27 AM

   

   Hi Daniel,

   AppVeyor allows you to override cloning code with your own snippet (clone_script in appveyor.yml). You can modify this example to suite your needs: https://gist.github.com/FeodorFitsner/99d5ba9b6171063804f9db08534becb2

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2. 2 Posted by Daniel Russel on 14 Sep, 2016 04:09 PM

   

   Thanks very much. I ended up with the following as the lfs version on appveyor (1.2) is too old to support lfs clone with –depth (1.4 does).

   clone_script:
   - ps: >-
       if(-not $env:appveyor_pull_request_number) {

         git clone --depth=1 -q -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.required=false --branch=$env:appveyor_repo_branch git@github.com:$env:appveyor_repo_name.git $env:appveyor_build_folder

         git checkout -qf $env:appveyor_repo_commit

         git lfs pull

       } else {

         git clone --depth=1 -q -c filter.lfs.smudge= -c filter.lfs.required=false git@github.com:$env:appveyor_repo_name.git $env:appveyor_build_folder

         git fetch -q origin +refs/pull/$env:appveyor_pull_request_number/merge:

         git checkout -qf FETCH_HEAD

         git lfs pull
       }

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 14 Sep, 2016 08:36 PM

   

   Thank you for sharing the final solution, I've saved it here: https://gist.github.com/FeodorFitsner/536a24c11e509c95aa7b0ba7e4b19408

   We'll deploy Git LFS 1.4.1 during the next update. Issue to watch: https://github.com/appveyor/ci/issues/1042

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4. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:08 AM.