I created a repo with some image files. I have .gitignore and .gitattributes that I want to exclude from lfs. So I need to track all files by lfs but not .gitignore and .gitattributes.
I' m using Sourcetree and I tried that in .gitattributes:
.gitignore text .gitattributes text * filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text But all of my files getting tracked by lfs.
I was looking for the same. I am using git version 2.26.2 and rkedge's answer did not work for me. I found this thread and ended up using:
*.dat filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text excluded.dat !filter !diff !merge text For files already commited, I had to untrack and re-commit them after modifying .gitattributes.
.gitattributes works similarly to .gitignore in terms of precedence.
* filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text .gitignore filter= diff= merge= text .gitattributes filter= diff= merge= text This will unset the filter, diff, merge for those files, and lfs won't track them.
.gitignore filter= diff= merge= text in my repository where I use git to backup my photos.
.gitattributes file, how do I replace the local files with their dereferenced content (instead of the git-lfs reference)?Unlike a .gitignore file, a .gitattributes file doesn't have exclude patterns, so there isn't a way to specify that all files except for a few should have a filter (like Git LFS) applied.
You'll need to specify your files in a different way. If all your files are in a directory (say, foo), you can specify foo/**. If they're all images, you could specify a rule for each type of image (say, one for *.png, one for *.jpg, and one for *.gif).
As a final suggestion, if they all start with an alphabetical or numerical character, you could specify [A-Za-z0-9]*, which would exclude all of the dot files as well.
