## Overview
Git is not inherently suitable for storing large files like audio, video, and graphics. Github blocks any push that is greater than 100Mb to ensure performance.

**Git Large File Storage** is an extension that replaces the large files as text references in Git and stores the actual file on the remote server.

     
## Install `git-lfs`

We can type the following commands in the terminal to install `git-lfs`:

```shell
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | bash

apt-get install git-lfs

git lfs install
```

On Mac, we can replace the first two commands with:

```shell
brew install git-lfs
```

## Set up the repository

We would need to configure `lfs` in each Git repository where we want to use `git-lfs`.

```shell
git lfs track "*.psd"
```

We can also create and edit the `.gitattributes` file directly. We need to make sure that the `.gitattributes` file is tracked in Git.

Finally, we simply commit and push.

Note that simply tracking a file will not convert any existing files tracked in Git to `lfs`. We can use 
`git lfs migrate` for doing that.



## Example

Let's add a `largeFile.pdf` in the GitHub repository 
> This [repository](https://github.com/anjanashankar9/gitBasics) needs to be cloned to the local machine.

git init
ls -A
git lfs track "*.pdf"
cat .gitattributes

On Github, the file would show up as follows:

How to use Git for large files

Git stores large files as text references with Git Large File Storage, enhancing performance. Install and configure git-lfs, then track files with `git lfs track "*.psd"`.

How to use Git for large files

Overview

Install git-lfs

Set up the repository

Example

Install `git-lfs`