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SourceTree: Git extensions (like LFS) and System Git

Stefan Baumgart1

Hello everyone!

I'm kinda lost here so I hope you can help me. We use the new Git LFS from GitHub on our servers, and want our designers to use it via the SourceTree app. The Git LFS extension is pretty need because you just need to activate it once, and then you can use your standard git commands (like add/push/commit) without any special extras, LFS just knows to put it somewhere else.

Now I thought that with SourceTree (and the switch to use System Git) this might be possible, too, since SourceTree would just act as some sort of wrapper to the original commands. Sadly, it doesn't work:

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false -c credential.helper=sourcetree add -f -- "Screen Shot 2015-06-01 at 15.29.57.png"

git: 'lfs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Did you mean this?

 flow

error: copy-fd: write returned Broken pipe

error: cannot feed the input to external filter git lfs clean %f

error: external filter git lfs clean %f failed 1

error: external filter git lfs clean %f failed

fatal: Screen Shot 2015-06-01 at 15.29.57.png: clean filter 'lfs' failed

Completed with errors, see above

Do I miss something? Should I run it as a different user maybe? If so, how can I do it.

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Stefan Baumgart1

Okay, I found the problem. I am using System Git, yes, but I don't have access to everything in PATH. SourceTree looks for the extensions in the same folder where Git is, so I just have to link to the git-lfs extension, so it seems to be in the same folder as System Git.

ln -s /usr/local/bin/git-lfs /usr/bin/git-lfs

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Seth

What happens if you run those git commands from the command line by hand? Are you on Mac or Windows?

Stefan Baumgart1

Hey Seth, thanks for looking into it. We are on Mac, all of us. When I run it via the command line it works like a charm, that's the output: ➜ marketing-lfs git:(master) git push origin master (0 of 1 files) 0 B / 386.41 KB 0.00 % Username for 'http://git-lfs-endpoint';;;: something Password for 'http://git-lfs-endpoint;: (1 of 1 files) 386.41 KB / 386.41 KB 100.00 % 4s Counting objects: 3, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done. Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 385 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) To https://git-endpoint e74defe..25d7f77 master -> master One thing that popped into my mind is that I'm using zsh. Might that be a problem? Best, Stefan

Stefan Baumgart1

ln -s /usr/local/bin/git-lfs /usr/bin/git-lfs

David Bernard

But this symlink is only a workaround, because everyone will need to re-create it every time they install a new Mac OS X version (like El Capitan :P).

Georg Schmidt

:-) in some way you are right... but I just found out that it seem to be not possible to create a symlink like "ln -s /usr/local/bin/git-lfs /usr/bin/git-lfs" in "El Capitan". There seem to be restrictions even to root. Thanks. Your post somehow helped.

David Bernard

Yeah I found out after I commented. So I created an issue about that: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-3174

David Bernard

On OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), the /usr/bin folder is now restricted, so the workaround now is to have everything inside /usr/local/bin, and symlink the "git" binary (not git-lfs) there:

ln -s /usr/bin/git /usr/local/bin/git

And then in SourceTree choose the Use System Git from /usr/local/bin.

Joseph Humfrey

Thanks, this one worked for me!

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