Git-lfs: Failing to push large files

[hexxd]

I can't seem to push large files (.zip) to github. LFS (version 1.3.1 installed via Homebrew) returns the following error:

remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File Storage - https://git-lfs.github.com.
remote: error: Trace: 63a488b53055cc71938b40da95b11be9
remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information.
remote: error: File vanilla-app.zip is 129.25 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB
To https://github.com/hexxd/vanilla.git
! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/hexxd/vanilla.git'

The order of operations I've been using is as follows:

1. Place the file in my local repository with git already initialized.
2. git lfs track myfile
3. git add .gitattributes
4. git commit -m ".gitattributes"
5. git push
6. git add myfile
7. git commit -m "myfile"
8. git push

What am I doing wrong?

[ttaylorr]

Hi @hexxd, thanks for opening this issue, and sorry to hear that you're having trouble! I think the problem lies in the existing state of your repository when you installed LFS:

Place the file in my local repository with git already initialized.

Due to the way that Git works, the file you want to track with LFS (myfile) _cannot be staged_ before it is "tracked" via your .gitattributes. To fix this, you can do a hard reset to before you added the file and run git lfs track myfile before you git add myfile. I noticed that that _is_ the order it seems you ran those commands, but if the file myfile is _already_ staged, subsequent git adds are treated as no-ops.

A few other things you could take a look at:

1. Upgrade your Git LFS version to the latest, which is 1.5.5 and available via Homebrew. Just brew update && brew upgrade git-lfs and you should be good to go.
2. Make sure that Git LFS is installed correctly, by running git lfs install.

Let me know if you have any more trouble!

[hexxd]

This worked beautifully. I used BFG to clean the repo and then followed the same procedure above.

For what it's worth, I would definitely put something about cleaning the repo out (either with BFG or something else; I like BFG because I didn't have to start my repo from scratch) in the readme. I stumbled upon LFS when I realized I couldn't push 100M+ files to a repository I had already created, and I imagine the same is true for other users who are new to git and have the same problem.

Thanks @ttaylorr!

[ttaylorr]

Happy to help!

[wsurles]

Trying to get git-lfs working when you have already committed large files is a total mess. Just rewrite your history they said. I really have no idea how to do that. But.... this seems to do it all for you:

git lfs migrate import --include="*.csv"

I had large csv files with data. This added some small files too, but at least I can push.

[seinick]

@wsurles - your migrate command helped immensely. Thank you.

[lcd10415]

@hexxd ,hello, I meet the same issues when I commit my code that is 108.85MB. But Git remind me of that it exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100.00 MB.so I must install git-lfs via homebrew

[diginsheetal]

• $ git push -u origin master
  Enumerating objects: 10843, done. Counting objects: 100% (10843/10843), done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads Compressing objects: 100% (7251/7251), done. Writing objects: 100% (10843/10843), 301.63 MiB \| 488.00 KiB/s, done. Total 10843 (delta 3375), reused 10843 (delta 3375)
  remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3375/3375), done. remote: warning: File atms_last.zip is 50.27 MB; this is larger than GitHub's re commended maximum file size of 50.00 MB remote: warning: File vms.zip is 63.71 MB; this is larger than GitHub's recommen ded maximum file size of 50.00 MB remote: error: GH001: Large files detected. You may want to try Git Large File S torage - https://git-lfs.github.com. remote: error: Trace: 7df7ae259e9e4f377519f6a816738371 remote: error: See http://git.io/iEPt8g for more information. remote: error: File atms_last/atms/Reports/leave_approval_report_fc4bc09984867f4 f66e4912968a06090.csv is 109.66 MB; this exceeds GitHub's file size limit of 100 .00 MB

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/diginsheetal/bridgestone_                                                                                                                 CLMS.git'
  

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[bk2204]

For those of you that are looking for a better solution in modern versions of Git LFS, the tool you're probably looking for is git lfs migrate import and it can take --include options which specify the pathspecs to migrate. Be sure to quote the pathspecs if they contains any characters special to the shell, such as "*".

https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/1933#issuecomment-351275765 provides a great example of how to use this functionality.

[SuninKingdom]

Helps a lot! Thank you!

[lianatumikyan]

@wsurles Your solution was really helpful. Thanks a lot !