Instead, it only provides the files you actually need in your checked out revision. The LFS extension uses a simple technique to avoid your local Git repository from exploding like that: it does not keep all versions of a file on your machine. And, as already mentioned, most of this data will be of little value: usually, old versions of files aren't used on a daily basis - but they still weigh a lot of Megabytes.

When a coworker clones that repository to her local machine, she will need to download a huge amount of data. After a couple of iterations, your local repository will quickly weigh tons of Megabytes and soon Gigabytes.

When you make a change to this file (no matter how tiny it might be), committing this modification will save the complete file (huge as it is) in your repository. Let's say you have a 100 MB Photoshop file in your project. An LFS-enhanced local Git repository will be significantly smaller in size because it breaks one basic rule of Git in an elegant way: it does not keep all of the project's data in your local repository. This problem in mind, Git's standard feature set was enhanced with the 'Large File Storage' extension - in short: 'Git LFS'. Most annoyingly, the majority of this huge amount of data is probably useless for you: most of the time, you don't need each and every version of a file on your disk.

Working with large binary files can be quite a hassle: they bloat your local repository and leave you with Gigabytes of data on your machine.

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