> Git LFS breaks so often that it can't be seen as a serious professional tool tbh. I've had nothing but trouble with it. If it wants to be serious it needs to be built into Git, not added as some after thought.

At Fortinet we migrated our SVN repositories to git and ran into a ton of issues; developers over the past ten years had done tons of little mistakes that added up, like accidentally checking an entire Windows virtual machine into the repo. In SVN they deleted it and no one ended up caring, but in Git of course it became part of the repo history.

I did a huge amount of work for the migration, 99% of which was analyzing each repo to find out what files/file extensions were overly large, and then either:

1. Filtering them out of the git history completely during import

2. Converting them to LFS objects after the import

The LFS process was certainly better than the other alternatives, which were 'check everything into the git history' or 'remove all the un-diffable binary files and hope that they weren't needed for anything', but it was still not ideal.

Every developer (out of thousands, across multiple countries, timezones, and native languages) had to set their system up properly; if you missed a command, or if you reinstalled your OS and forgot to set up one of the aliases or hooks, then you would end up checking binary blobs into git rather than LFS, or checking out LFS idents rather than the actual files they needed.

We also had the issue of developers fetching code over SSH but LFS files over HTTPS, which would be fine except that we wanted to prevent access to HTTPS from most subnets, so while the developers could use SSH to clone or pull using their 2FA token their client would then make an HTTP request that wouldn't work unless they were on the version control VPN, which.... blah blah blah.

So yeah, it worked better than the alternative, but it did not work _well_ a lot of the time.