From: Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:44:54 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: git-lfs lacks partial checkout support
X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~322^2~85
X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59c2001d2f60a213af0b754b18461f5b9b6239fb;p=git-annex.git

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 6ef601ec92..c1422e3123 100644
--- 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