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authorKamil Trzcinski <ayufan@ayufan.eu>2016-09-19 16:34:32 +0200
committerKamil Trzcinski <ayufan@ayufan.eu>2016-09-19 16:34:32 +0200
commit3c1bb3432b0b8448262ec9a9a3468641c82db5c1 (patch)
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parent135be3cabb01ca3c825829f18ede4e8720383d7b (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-3c1bb3432b0b8448262ec9a9a3468641c82db5c1.tar.gz
Revert "Revert all changes introduced by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6043"lfs-support
This reverts commit 6d43c95b7011ec7ec4600e00bdc8df76bb39813c.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/workflow/lfs')
-rw-r--r--doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md4
-rw-r--r--doc/workflow/lfs/manage_large_binaries_with_git_lfs.md8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md b/doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md
index 9dc1e9b47e3..b3c73e947f0 100644
--- a/doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md
+++ b/doc/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md
@@ -45,5 +45,5 @@ In `config/gitlab.yml`:
* Currently, storing GitLab Git LFS objects on a non-local storage (like S3 buckets)
is not supported
* Currently, removing LFS objects from GitLab Git LFS storage is not supported
-* LFS authentications via SSH is not supported for the time being
-* Only compatible with the GitLFS client versions 1.1.0 or 1.0.2.
+* LFS authentications via SSH was added with GitLab 8.12
+* Only compatible with the GitLFS client versions 1.1.0 and up, or 1.0.2.
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.