Hi Site: roobottom.com Build output: 2:31:33 PM: Build ready to start 2:31:36 PM: build-image version: b0258b965567defc4a2d7e2f2dec2e00c8f73ad6 2:31:36 PM: build-image tag: v3.4.1 2:31:36 PM: buildbot version: fcbc7a79f7372e5995cf02954ef19fc48d20c871 2:31:36 PM: Building without cache 2:31:36 PM:…

Hi, @roobottom , I also want to chime in here to make some finer points clear: Large Media is Netlify’s Git LFS service. If you use Git LFS, you are not required to use Large Media. (You can use the Git LFS provided by the repo host: meaning Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub.) The raw images are available …

OK, thanks. Are you saying that I can’t store LFS file in github then have them downloaded during my build process? I.e., I can’t use Githib’s LFS and have the files available on my website? Thanks,

Nope :slight_smile: He’s saying that during build the files aren’t there. At serve time, we do send them to the browser :wink:

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate your time in helping me understand this. I’m still a bit lost - as isn’t cloning from github part of the build process? My build resizes all my images, so if they’re not available at build they won’t be resized (new files created) and won’t be available to the b…

Netlify’s build process is not requesting the assets stored in Git-lfs. 3 reasons to consider to keep images in LFS: Netlify can automatically resize your images using request Params and will be cached automatically. (You can find more information in Netlify Docs) You have tons of images( or othe…

Thanks, @luke - this makes things clear. I’ll reply on the other post in #admin

Hi, @luke . Is it possible to also cache the files pulled from Git LFS? Otherwise, each build just consumes a lot of bandwidth.

Hi, @hoangbn . This should already be the default behavior. Our build system does cache the repo between builds so the git pull should only need to download new or changed files. If you are not seeing this happen, please let us know and our support team will take a look to find out why it isn’t work…

I wonder why it was working fine with images stored on GitLab LFS (we do build time image compression) but totally fails with video files

Interesting, so apparently Netlify downloads images from external LFS regardless of env variables set. But, for bigger files it needs both GIT_LFS_ENABLED=TRUE and GIT_LFS_FETCH_INCLUDE=* to be set. Is it that unusual for users to store media files in LFS though?

LFS files aren't downloaded during build

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zltnvrs September 3, 2020, 5:37pm 2

Hi @roobottom!

Images stored in Git-LFS are not accessible during the build process.
You can follow the instructions to uninstall git lfs Here

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LFS files aren't downloaded during build

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