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| author | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2020-11-30 14:02:35 +0300 |
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| committer | GitLab Bot <gitlab-bot@gitlab.com> | 2020-11-30 14:02:35 +0300 |
| commit | 434a0ce52d75e13d48eac9ce83774954c7c5d48d (patch) | |
| tree | de3b7a7cf1ce8b07555f28df592297c76894c90f /doc/topics/git/lfs | |
| parent | 0a0d9493ca481c56b739a3df27c31262283150fe (diff) | |
Add latest changes from gitlab-org/gitlab@13-7-stable-eev13.7.0-rc2
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diff --git a/doc/topics/git/lfs/migrate_to_git_lfs.md b/doc/topics/git/lfs/migrate_to_git_lfs.md index 596b2cb400f..bf7c69eb9ba 100644 --- a/doc/topics/git/lfs/migrate_to_git_lfs.md +++ b/doc/topics/git/lfs/migrate_to_git_lfs.md @@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ description: "How to migrate an existing Git repository to Git LFS with BFG." Using Git LFS can help you to reduce the size of your Git repository and improve its performance. -However, simply adding the -large files that are already in your repository to Git LFS, -will not actually reduce the size of your repository because +However, simply adding the large files that are already in your repository to Git LFS +doesn't actually reduce the size of your repository because the files are still referenced by previous commits. Through the method described on this document, first migrate @@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ Before beginning, make sure: Branches based on the repository before applying this method cannot be merged. Branches based on the repo before applying this method cannot be merged. -To follow this tutorial, you'll need: +To follow this tutorial, you need: - Maintainer permissions to the existing Git repository you'd like to migrate to LFS with access through the command line. @@ -74,7 +73,7 @@ Consider an example upstream project, `git@gitlab.com:gitlab-tests/test-git-lfs- 1. Clone `--mirror` the repository: - Cloning with the mirror flag will create a bare repository. + Cloning with the mirror flag creates a bare repository. This ensures you get all the branches within the repo. It creates a directory called `<repo-name>.git` @@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ Consider an example upstream project, `git@gitlab.com:gitlab-tests/test-git-lfs- ``` Now all existing the files you converted, as well as the new - ones you add, will be properly tracked with LFS. + ones you add, are properly tracked with LFS. 1. [Re-protect the default branch](../../../user/project/protected_branches.md): |