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

This crate is currently experimental. It passes 75% of the upstream test suite, so it should be functional for day-to-day use. But it is not as battle-tested as the upstream Go git-lfs, and there is functionality which has not been implemented yet, specifically:

• git lfs config
• custom transfer adapters
• SSH git-lfs-authenticate
• merge-driver
• dedup
• Retry/Retry-After handling

For production workloads, use upstream git-lfs.

Why

git-lfs is a good codebase to reimplement in Rust. It is well-specified, the upstream test suite is comprehensive (kudos to the original authors on their testing discipline), and it is widely used. Reimplementing real-world tooling in Rust is a great learning exercise, and this can slot into the existing work with gix.

License

MIT, with attribution to the upstream Git LFS contributors.