Overview

Simple project for convert old repository for using git-lfs feature.

How to use

Run from binaries

For quick run you need:

• Install Java 1.8 or later
• Download binaries archive from: https://github.com/bozaro/git-lfs-migrate/releases/latest
• After unpacking archive you can run server executing:

   java -jar build/deploy/git-lfs-migrate.jar -s source-repo.git -d target-repo.git -l http://test:[email protected]/ "*.psd" "*.zip" "*.bin"

For example, you can convert bozaro/git-lfs-migrate to bozaro/git-lfs-migrate-converted by commands:

#!/bin/bash
# Clone original repository
git clone --mirror [email protected]:bozaro/git-lfs-migrate.git

Convert repository with moving .md and .jar file to LFS
#
Usage: 
 [options] LFS file glob patterns
Options:
-c, --cache
Source repository
Default: .
--check-lfs
Check LFS server settings and exit
Default: false
* -d, --destination
Destination repository
-g, --git
GIT repository url (ignored with --lfs parameter)
-h, --help
Show help
Default: false
-l, --lfs
LFS server url (can be determinated by --git paramter)
* -s, --source
Source repository
-u, --upload-threads
HTTP upload thread count
Default: 4
-t, --write-threads
IO thread count
Default: 2
--glob-file
File containing glob patterns
java -jar git-lfs-migrate.jar 
     -s git-lfs-migrate.git 
     -d git-lfs-migrate-converted.git 
     -g [email protected]:bozaro/git-lfs-migrate-converted.git 
     ".md" 
     ".jar"
Push coverted repository to new repository
cd git-lfs-migrate-converted.git
git fsck && git push --mirror [email protected]:bozaro/git-lfs-migrate-converted.git

After that you with have:

• New repository bozaro/git-lfs-migrate-converted
• All *.md and *.jar in this repository will stored in LFS storage
• All revisions on this repository will have modified or created .gitattributes file with new lines like:
  

  *.md    filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
  *.jar   filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
  

Supported Git url formats:

• https://user:[email protected]/foo/bar.git
• http://user:[email protected]/foo/bar.git
• git://user:[email protected]/foo/bar.git
• ssh://[email protected]/foo/bar.git
• [email protected]:foo/bar.git

Build from sources

To build from sources you need install JDK 1.8 or later and run build script.

For Linux:

./gradlew deployZip

For Windows:

call gradlew.bat deployZip

When build completes you can convert repository executing:

java -jar build/deploy/git-lfs-migrate.jar -s source-repo.git -d target-repo.git -l http://test:[email protected]/ "*.psd" "*.zip" "*.bin"