Check out git-lfs files on VSTF build

Question

I\'ve a repository hosted on VSTS, containig a file stored through git-lfs. If I just let VSTS build checkout the repository it just downloads the git-lfs metadata file cont

Answer 1

For TFS Build 2015 Update 4 (the self-hosted flavor of this thing, as opposed to VSTS, the cloud service), the "Checkout files from LFS" option does not exist, and as such, we had to do this:

• Check Allow Scripts to Access OAuth Token on the Options tab.

• Commit this batch file into the repository somewhere:

  REM This script is intended to fetch large (LFS) files during the TFS Build process.
  
  REM Solution derived from https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-agent/issues/1134
  
  git config --unset-all http.extraheader
  git config --add http.extraheader "AUTHORIZATION: bearer %SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN%"
  git lfs fetch
  git lfs checkout
  git config --unset http.extraheader        
  

• Add a build step of a Batch Script, and run the above script.