git-lfs

A from-scratch Rust port of Git LFS. The goal is feature parity with the upstream Go binary at the CLI and wire-protocol level, with a cleaner library split and a better help output in the binary.

Status

Experimental — not yet ready for production use. About 290 of the 790 vendored upstream shell tests pass (~37%). Day-to-day flows — clean / smudge, fetch / pull / push, track, locking, migrate — work end to end against authenticated LFS endpoints, but several commands are missing or partial (env output, config, custom transfer adapters, SSH, retry/rate-limit handling, parts of migrate). For real workloads, use upstream git-lfs.

Why

This is a learning exercise and a parity-compatible base for experimentation — for example, content-defined chunking on top of LFS to reduce upload size when large files change. See the project README for the longer version.

License

MIT, with attribution to the upstream Git LFS contributors.