Is it possible for git lfs pull to ignore some files / folders?

Question

Short question: Is it possible to configure git such that regular git pull will ignore some files?

Problem description: I have a repository that includes some large

Answer 1

git checkout patch (choose files to checkout)

The only way i can think of to do something like this is to use partial checkout

git checkout -p

It will allow you to choose which files will be checked out manually.

Answer 2

if you want to ignore all git lfs files:

export GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1

before you clone/pull

Answer 3

I ran into this man page, I didn't tested but hopefully it helps:

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INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE

You can configure Git LFS to only fetch objects to satisfy references in certain paths of the repo, and/or to exclude certain paths of the repo, to reduce the time you spend downloading things you do not use.

In gitconfig, set lfs.fetchinclude and lfs.fetchexclude to comma-separated lists of paths to include/exclude in the fetch (wildcard matching as per gitignore). Only paths which are matched by fetchinclude and not matched by fetchexclude will have objects fetched for them.

Examples:

• git config lfs.fetchinclude "textures,images/foo*"

  This will only fetch objects referenced in paths in the textures folder, and files called foo* in the images folder

• git config lfs.fetchinclude "*.jpg,*.png,*.tga"

  Only fetch JPG/PNG/TGA files, wherever they are in the repository

• git config lfs.fetchexclude "media/reallybigfiles"

  Don't fetch any LFS objects referenced in the folder media/reallybigfiles, but fetch everything else

• git config lfs.fetchinclude "media"
git config lfs.fetchexclude "media/excessive"

  Only fetch LFS objects in the 'media' folder, but exclude those in one of its subfolders.