git-lfs-track - View or add Git LFS paths to Git
attributes
git lfs track [options] [pattern...]
Start tracking the given patterns(s) through Git LFS. The
pattern argument is written to .gitattributes. If no paths are
provided, simply list the currently-tracked paths.
The gitattributes documentation
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes states that patterns use the
gitignore pattern rules https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore to match
paths. This means that patterns which contain asterisk (*), question
mark (?), and the bracket characters ([ and ]) are
treated specially; to disable this behavior and treat them literally
instead, use --filename or escape the character with a backslash.
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- --verbose -v: If enabled, have git lfs track log
files which it will touch. Disabled by default.
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- --dry-run -d: If enabled, have git lfs track log all
actions it would normally take (adding entries to .gitattributes, touching
files on disk, etc) without performing any mutative operations to the
disk.
- git lfs track --dry-run [files] also implicitly mocks the behavior
of passing the --verbose, and will log in greater detail what it is
doing.
- Disabled by default.
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- --filename Treat the arguments as literal filenames, not as
patterns. Any special glob characters in the filename will be escaped when
writing the .gitattributes file.
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- --lockable -l Make the paths 'lockable', meaning they should
be locked to edit them, and will be made read-only in the working copy
when not locked.
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- --not-lockable Remove the lockable flag from the paths so they are
no longer read-only unless locked.
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- --no-excluded Do not list patterns that are excluded in the output;
only list patterns that are tracked.
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- --no-modify-attrs Makes matched entries stat-dirty so that Git can
re-index files you wish to convert to LFS. Does not modify any
.gitattributes file(s).
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