Git LFS asking for passphrase for every tracked file

Question

I am using Git LFS with Bitbucket using OSX (although i found the same issue with Ubuntu).

My repo contains many files stored using Git LFS

When I do a git clone, it asks for my passphrase for EVERY tracked file using Git LFS. This is a huge issue as I can have potentially hundreds of files stored using Git LFS.

Note that there is no problems regarding files that are not tracked using Git LFS.

How can I fix this issue?

Answer 1

I am surprised that other people did not have this question.

The answer is to use:

• git lfs clone instead of git clone
• git lfs pull instead of git pull

This also improves performance by using parallelisation.

For more information, see: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-lfs#speeding-up-clones