Pointers for large files and repositories in Git

How to Add files to a Large Repository? (Reddit)

Git has opt-in support for handling large files.

• Use the –depth option to control how much history to clone (good for pipelines, where you’re usually only interested in the tip, so depth 1)
• Whereas depth controls how much you clone (size of the .git folder), sparse-checkout controls the size of your working tree.
• git logoUse LFS (Large File Storage) to store files. This will not remove large files from existing commits. This feature is seamless to enable and well-supported throughout the ecosystem.
• Once you’ve set up LFS for future commits, you can consider removing large files from already-existing commits using something like BFG and then re-adding them with LFS.