Cloning/Pulling with LFS enabled

[lordofthejars]

I am creating a class that uses jgit to download big files using LFS. I have made it work with jgit + git lfs installed, but I'd love to have the same but without having to have git lfs installed in the computer, so more a Java native solution.

Even though I tried different things, the only result I got is that the file pointer is downloaded, and the .gitattributes and .git/config are configured correctly, but still, only the pointer is there, not the full file.

I tried debugging and replicating the LFS test module, but I had no luck. Here is the code: https://github.com/lordofthejars/jgit-lfs/blob/main/src/main/java/org/acme/HuggingFaceDownloader.java

If anyone can point me to what I am doing wrong or show me an example where it is used, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks, and Happy New Year.

[Phillipus]

Does JGit's implementation of LFS require native LFS? I thought that the JGit implementation was stand-alone?