Cocoapods: Integration with LFS

Created on 21 Jan 2016 · 10Comments · Source: CocoaPods/CocoaPods

I have some large .a files stored in GitHub LFS and listed in my podspec as vendored_libraries. When I run pod install they do not get copied to my pod directory, am I doing something wrong or is this functionality not supported?

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marchinram

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Just had a hangup with this for a vendored library. Turned out to be that CocoaPods had cached the library before Git LFS had been enabled (with git lfs install) on the build server.

The fix was easy, just delete the CocoaPods cache folder after enabling Git LFS, like so:
rm -rf /Users/$USER/Library/Caches/CocoaPods

phatblat on 23 Mar 2016

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What needs to be done beyond git clone to download LFS stuff? Can you give us an example podspec we can investigate with?

segiddins on 21 Jan 2016

It's an extension to git: https://git-lfs.github.com/?utm_source=github_site&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=gitlfs

I'm not really sure what is added haven't been able to figure out yet, will look into this. Unfortunately my podspec is for work and I cannot share, however the podspec was not changed at all to support lfs, it just adds a .gitattributes to describe which files are stored in lfs

marchinram on 22 Jan 2016

Right but we need access to a repo setup however it has to be for LFS to determine what needs to be done in the CocoaPods downloader to support it.

segiddins on 22 Jan 2016

As a point of reference: I'm using cocoapods with git-lfs and it's working fine. It would likely break if you didn't have git-lfs installed on the machine where you're pod installing.

srubin on 29 Jan 2016

Just had a hangup with this for a vendored library. Turned out to be that CocoaPods had cached the library before Git LFS had been enabled (with git lfs install) on the build server.

The fix was easy, just delete the CocoaPods cache folder after enabling Git LFS, like so:
rm -rf /Users/$USER/Library/Caches/CocoaPods

phatblat on 23 Mar 2016

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Looks like as if there is nothing actionable for us to do here.

neonichu on 1 May 2016

We have a requirement to use a git lfs Pod Repository without running the command git lfs install (which modifies the global .gitconfig file and messes up another part of our pipeline). Can CocoaPods be modified to handle this? @neonichu

marner2 on 28 Jul 2017

@marner2 you can use an .lfsconfig file at the root of the repo without the need to touch the global .gitconfig.

phatblat on 29 Jul 2017

@phatblat can you elaborate on this? I don't see how the .lfsconfig is supposed to help. That's for configuring specific options once git-lfs is already being used. That file has no effect if git lfs install hasn't been run and we don't have a way to call git lfs pull before things are copied to the Pods folder.

I'm not trying to change any git-lfs settings, I just want to make cocoapods download the git lfs files from a cold start (uncached) without modifying the global or user .gitconfig.

marner2 on 5 Sep 2017

We'd like to know the current status on this issue. We also have a pod for installing a large framework (800+ MB) and many users have faced the same issue as OP described. It would be great if there was a way to indicate LFS in podspecs so that LFS can be automatically installed before fetching the frameworks.