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This is great. We use get lfs extensively, and one of the biggest complaints we have is users have to clone 7GB of data just to get the source files. There's a work around in that you don't have to enter your username and password from the lfs repo, and let it timeout, but that's a kluge.

There’s an option for that: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY

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