GIT-LFS-POINTER(1)

💅 GIT-LFS-POINTER(1) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the git-lfs-pointer era — this is the page where we build pointers, compare pointers, and vibe-check pointers (yes those are three different things, stay with me 🫶). it's all part of the git-lfs suite, more on that at the end 👑

✨ NAME ✨

git-lfs-pointer — build, compare, and check pointers. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it iconically 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git lfs pointer --file=path/to/file
git lfs pointer --file=path/to/file --pointer=path/to/pointer
git lfs pointer --file=path/to/file --stdin
git lfs pointer --check --file=path/to/file

like, four whole ways to run this thing. pick your main character moment 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so what does it actually do? it builds pointer files, and if you want, it also compares the one it generated against a pointer someone else's implementation made — literally just so everybody's Git LFS implementations stay consistent with each other. no cap, that's the whole point: consistency check between different implementations ✨🤝

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f, --file — the local file you wanna build the pointer from. that's your starting material bestie 🌸
• -p, --pointer — a local file that holds the contents of a pointer generated by a totally different implementation. this one gets compared against the pointer that came out of --file. it's giving cross-implementation vibe check 🔥
• --stdin — reads the pointer from STDIN instead, and compares that against the pointer generated from --file. same energy, different delivery method 💌
• --check — reads the pointer from STDIN (that's when --stdin is given) or from the filepath (that's when --file is given). heads up though: if you give neither of --stdin and --file, or you give both of them, the invocation is invalid. it exits 0 if whatever it read is a valid Git LFS pointer, and exits 1 otherwise. binary slay/not-slay 💀✨
• --strict, --no-strict — works together with --check. --strict verifies that the pointer is canonical — meaning it's the exact one Git LFS itself would have created. if it's not, it exits 2 😭. the default, kept around for backwards compatibility, is --no-strict, but no cap that might change in a future version so don't get too comfy 🙈
• --no-extensions — don't print the extensions of the pointer. that's it. simple. minimal. clean girl aesthetic 🧚

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

part of the git-lfs(1) suite 🫶 — go say hi to the rest of the family.

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and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 you just read the GIT-LFS-POINTER(1) manual page, top to bottom, and honestly? you ate. go build some pointers, validate them, and remember: --strict exits 2 and it WILL tell on you 💅✨👑