Git LFS

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Enable LFS

First of all, install lfs for git using following command:

git lfs install

Then add track of large files using lfs:

git lfs track "*.png,*.jpg,*.jpeg"

Note that the command above will also update .gitattributes file automatically.

Steps above will only handle future large files. To migrate large file to LFS storage for previous commits, we could use git lfs migrate command.

git lfs migrate import --everything --include="*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png"

Migrates all files in your Git repository matching the patterns *.jpg, *.jpeg, and *.png to be tracked by Git Large File Storage (LFS).
The --everything flag applies the migration to all commits in the repository history, not just the current state.
The --include option specifies which file types to migrate (in this case, common image formats).

We could use git lfs ls-files to check the state of LFS tracked files.

We could use git lfs prune to remove large files stored in local computer that not referenced by any commit and object.

We could use git lfs export to remove all files from LFS storage.

git lfs migrate export --include "*"

Checkout another post Gitea – Self-Hosted Git & CI/CD Tools for more info about LFS support for actions.