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| author | Achilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me> | 2016-11-23 15:17:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Achilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me> | 2016-11-23 15:17:25 +0000 |
| commit | ae4cc429a09d05a9bdfa7682bc6df9820786e2c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c7db65ffe928c40b146772e45ad3d903c1aef7d | |
| parent | 2317eb5ec98705fd175c87f8f2f7d3b84d3f5912 (diff) | |
| parent | 7e0e5bc3786bbe8ce2a58e28cc166f9e7cbc8193 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-ae4cc429a09d05a9bdfa7682bc6df9820786e2c1.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'patch-13' into 'master'
add details that Git LFS must be enabled in project
## What does this MR do?
Add details that Git LFS must be enabled in project before it will work
See merge request !7680
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md b/doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md index 28e6a21a229..6a7098e79d0 100644 --- a/doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md +++ b/doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Documentation for GitLab instance administrators is under [LFS administration do ## Requirements * Git LFS is supported in GitLab starting with version 8.2 +* Git LFS must be enabled under project settings * [Git LFS client](https://git-lfs.github.com) version 1.0.1 and up ## Known limitations @@ -31,10 +32,10 @@ Documentation for GitLab instance administrators is under [LFS administration do * Git LFS v1 original API is not supported since it was deprecated early in LFS development * When SSH is set as a remote, Git LFS objects still go through HTTPS -* Any Git LFS request will ask for HTTPS credentials to be provided so good Git +* Any Git LFS request will ask for HTTPS credentials to be provided so a good Git credentials store is recommended * Git LFS always assumes HTTPS so if you have GitLab server on HTTP you will have - to add the URL to Git config manually (see #troubleshooting) + to add the URL to Git config manually (see [troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)) >**Note**: With 8.12 GitLab added LFS support to SSH. The Git LFS communication still goes over HTTP, but now the SSH client passes the correct credentials @@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ available to the project anymore. Probably the object was removed from the serve * Local git repository is using deprecated LFS API -### Invalid status for <url> : 501 +### Invalid status for `<url>` : 501 Git LFS will log the failures into a log file. To view this log file, while in project directory: @@ -106,6 +107,9 @@ git lfs logs last If the status `error 501` is shown, it is because: +* Git LFS is not enabled in project settings. Check your project settings and + enable Git LFS. + * Git LFS support is not enabled on the GitLab server. Check with your GitLab administrator why Git LFS is not enabled on the server. See [LFS administration documentation](lfs_administration.md) for instructions |