git-lfs lacks partial checkout support

git-lfs's smudge filter downloads contents of files from the server when
not available locally. So, checking out a branch will always populate all
files.

diff --git a/doc/not.mdwn b/doc/not.mdwn
index 6ef601ec926fb9e4676d92f4332564fbafa4c6d3..c1422e3123054401d057e7ddc12b984d8ce77619 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/not.mdwn
+++ b/doc/not.mdwn
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
 * Similarly, git-annex is not [git-lfs](https://github.com/github/git-lfs),
   which also uses git smudge filters, and appears to lack git-annex's
-  widely distributed storage.
+  widely distributed storage and partial checkouts.
 
 * git-annex is also not [boar](http://code.google.com/p/boar/),
   although it shares many of its goals and characteristics. Boar implements