Revert "Revert all changes introduced by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6043"lfs-support

This reverts commit 6d43c95b7011ec7ec4600e00bdc8df76bb39813c.

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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 9fe065fa680..1a4f213a792 100644
--- a/doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md
+++ b/doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ Documentation for GitLab instance administrators is under [LFS administration do
   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)
+  
+>**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
+ to the Git LFS client, so no action is required by the user.
 
 ## Using Git LFS
 
@@ -132,6 +136,10 @@ git config --add lfs.url "http://gitlab.example.com/group/project.git/info/lfs"
 
 ### Credentials are always required when pushing an object
 
+>**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
+ to the Git LFS client, so no action is required by the user.
+
 Given that Git LFS uses HTTP Basic Authentication to authenticate the user pushing
 the LFS object on every push for every object, user HTTPS credentials are required.