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NAME
       git-lfs-clone - Efficiently clone a LFS-enabled repository

SYNOPSIS
       git lfs clone [git clone options] <repository> [<directory>]

DESCRIPTION
       Clone an LFS enabled Git repository more efficiently by disabling LFS
       during the git clone, then performing a 'git lfs pull' directly
       afterwards.

       'git lfs clone' also installs all of the repo-level hooks (.git/hooks)
       that LFS requires to operate. If --separate-git-dir is given, the hooks
       will be installed there.

       This is faster than a regular 'git clone' because that will download
       LFS content using the smudge filter, which is executed individually per
       file in the working copy. This is relatively inefficient compared to
       the batch mode and parallel downloads performed by 'git lfs pull'.

OPTIONS
       All options supported by 'git clone'

       -I <paths>, --include=<paths>
	   See INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE.

       -X <paths>, --exclude=<paths>
	   See INCLUDE AND EXCLUDE.

       --skip-repo
	   Skip installing repo-level hooks (.git/hooks) that LFS requires.
	   Disabled by default.

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 your Git configuration or in a .lfsconfig file, you may set either
       or both of lfs.fetchinclude and lfs.fetchexclude to comma-separated
       lists of paths. If lfs.fetchinclude is defined, Git LFS objects will
       only be fetched if their path matches one in that list, and if
       lfs.fetchexclude is defined, Git LFS objects will only be fetched if
       their path does not match one in that list. Paths are matched using
       wildcard matching as per gitignore(5).

       Note that using the command-line options -I and -X override the
       respective configuration settings. Setting either option to an empty
       string clears the value.

SEE ALSO
       git-clone(1), git-lfs-pull(1), gitignore(5).

       Part of the git-lfs(1) suite.

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