Duplicating a git repository and its GIT-LFS settings

Question

I've duplicated a repo into a newer repo but when doing a git clone on the new repo it's unable to download the files using the LFS pointers and I get an error when smudge is used... e.g... "Error downloading object. Object not found on server"

Steps:

git clone --bare https://github.com/myuser/old-repo.git
cd old-repository.git
git push --mirror https://github.com/myuser/new-repo.git

git clone https://github.com/myuser/new-repo.git
[error.....git-lfs.exe smudge --- somefile.....Error downloading object]

The branches and commit histories look fine but LFS fails to download the required files. Is there another method when using git-lfs?

Answer 1

I found out this link: mirroring-a-repository-that-contains-git-large-file-storage-objects

It seems to exactly answer your question. The important part you missed is the git lfs push/pull:

git clone --bare https://hostname/exampleuser/old-repository.git
cd old-repository.git
git lfs fetch --all
git push --mirror https://hostname/exampleuser/new-repository.git
git lfs push --all https://github.com/exampleuser/new-repository.git

Answer 2

Hooks and addons and such are repo-local config, if your git-lfs setup is somehow tricky to do a second time commit a repo-setup script to do it and run that on first checkout.