Use GitHub LFS

[richelbilderbeek]

From @richelbilderbeek on July 18, 2016 15:6

My question, send to GitHub help:

The description how to install git-lfs is straightforward, iff one has root rights.

Too bad that in my working environment, I do not have access to root rights:

./install.sh
install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/local/bin/git-lfs’: Permission denied

Would it be possible to describe the installation of git-lfs for a user without root rights?

Thanks, Richel Bilderbeek

Reply:

Hi Richel,

Thanks for getting in touch. In order to use Git LFS, you'll need to install it somewhere that you can write to.

Setting a prefix in your home directory, either PREFIX=$HOME directly or PREFIX=$HOME/git-lfs, and then adding the resulting bin directory to your PATH is the best way to accomplish this without administrator access.

If you've never modified your PATH before, this article gives an overview of how that works:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001647.htm

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Jess

Copied from original issue: richelbilderbeek/Cer2016#89