GIT-LFS-POST-COMMIT(1)

💖 git-lfs-post-commit — the hook that keeps your lockable files on a leash 💅

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for git-lfs-post-commit, which lives in the git-lfs suite — yes, that git-lfs, the big one. she's a Git hook implementation and she is, lowkey, doing the most important quiet work. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git lfs post-commit

that's it. no flags, no options, no arguments. she takes zero notes and needs zero input. icon behavior honestly. 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: git lfs post-commit responds to Git post-commit events. that's her whole job and she eats every time.

what she actually does — and this is the part you need to know — is make sure that any files marked as lockable by git lfs track are read-only in the working copy... if they're not currently locked by the local user. read that again: read-only, unless you are the one holding the lock. she's not out here freezing your own files on you, she's just making sure nobody else's lockable stuff looks editable when it isn't. 🦋

now, the fun part — the comparison. there's a sibling command, git lfs post-merge, and she has a similar purpose, but she has to examine all the files in the working copy. brutal. exhausting. meanwhile git lfs post-commit gets to limit herself to checking only those files which have changed in HEAD. efficiency queen fr fr. ⭐

and what is she primarily handling? newly added lockable files which have not yet been made read-only. that's her main character moment. newly added, lockable, still editable — she catches them and fixes the vibe check. 🙈💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• git-lfs-post-merge(1) — the sibling with the similar purpose, but she's reading the whole working copy, bless her
• git-lfs-track(1) — where you mark files as lockable in the first place, iykyk

she's part of the git-lfs(1) suite, so go check out the rest of the family when you're done here. 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — signed off in the very last line as GIT-LFS-POST-COMMIT(1), same name as the top, because the manual page said so and we respect the manual page. no version, no date, just vibes and a lowercase section title. slay. 💅✨🍓