[vtk-developers] Dashboard machines and git lfs

[David Thompson]

> I'm really impressed with git lfs. Maybe I'll see if there is someway to use cake to detect if it is installed. Then we could skip tests or examples that reference lfs data.

We have been happy with it for CMB/SMTK. We use an empty file marked for storage with LFS (in .gitattributes) to detect whether the LFS smudge has been run. See lines 153-166 here:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmb/smtk/blob/285a424a4b6c21c54aa314d6693dee39fb27d027/CMakeLists.txt#L166

for the CMake test we use.

    David

>> On Nov 30, 2017 7:55 AM, "David Thompson" <david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> Ben Boeckel set up LFS for the SMTK and CMB dashboard buildbots, so it is possible. However, he prefers to enable LFS on a per-repo basis rather than enable it globally. So most probably some configuration would be required to enable it for any VTK build.
>> 
>>     David
>> 
>> > On Nov 30, 2017, at 06:48, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Do any of the dashboard machines have the git lfs client installed?
>> > I'm thinking of using git lfs to version large data files for the
>> > VTKExamples.
>> >
>> > Bill
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