dchakro

So, it has been an interesting journey, but time to remove git-lfs. Here follows a summary of the approach I used to safely remove git-lfs,

• git add --update; git commit -m “Commit before lfs removal”; git push
• git checkout -b “remove-lfs”
• remove hooks git lfs uninstall
• remove files enrolled in git-lfs from .gitattributes (open the file, delete the contents) [P.S. don’t delete the file!]
• list all lfs files, git lfs ls-files
• run git rm --cached for each file
  • git lfs ls-files | cut -f 3 -d ' ' | xargs git rm --cached
• Untrack files (individually or pattern)git lfs untrack '*.xz'

dchakro

# Modified from: https://gist.github.com/retrography/359e0cc56d2cf1acd161b5645bc801a8

# The functions below use parallelized version of gzip called pigz
# to improve compression/decompression performance of RDS serialization in R.
# Each function searches for the appropriate program (based on the require 
# compression format) and if found, offloads the compression handling to the
# external program and therefore leaves R free to do the data import/export.

# The functions have been only tested on macOS, but probably also work on other *nix systems