GIT-LFS-CLEAN(1)

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💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to the GIT-LFS-CLEAN(1) page — git-lfs-clean is the Git clean filter that converts large files to pointers. It's giving “big file goes in, smol pointer comes out.” 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git lfs clean <path>

That's the whole call, bestie. The path placeholder is right there in the synopsis. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the tea: git-lfs-clean reads the contents of a large file from standard input, and writes a Git LFS pointer file for that file to standard output. Literally the glow-up from big file to pointer. ✨

Clean is typically run by Git's clean filter, configured by the repository's Git attributes. So it's lowkey doing its thing in the background, iykyk. 🎀

Clean is not part of the user-facing Git plumbing commands. Important vibe check! If you wanna preview the pointer of a large file as it would be generated, see the git-lfs-pointer(1) command. 👀

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

Part of the git-lfs(1) suite. Whole fam, no cap. 🫶

💅 Signing off from the GIT-LFS-CLEAN(1) footer — no extra source/version/date info was in this one, just the page name doing its lil encore. Stay slay, bestie. 🦋

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