Support for git lfs

[hhamud]

Request support for git lfs for cloning, pulling, fetching and checking out

[lminer]

Any plans to work on this? Seems to be responsible for lack of git-lfs support in uv

[weihanglo]

Seems to be responsible for lack of git-lfs support in uv

It doesn't seem like it. They moved away from libgit2 to git CLI months ago: astral-sh/uv#3312 (comment)

[weihanglo]

git-lfs is a tool built upon Git's filter attributes. This paragraph describes how it works.

Not sure what you actually mean by supporting git-lfs. Guess you mean implementing the Git LFS client spec inside git2? Since git2 is considerd as a thin-safe wrapper around libgit2, it might be a bit out-of-scope (libgit2 doesn't have native git-lfs client either). Though that doesn't mean we can't do that.

Regardless, there is a prerequisite: #442 — git_filter* bindings need to be exposed first in libgit2-sys.