Git LFS server

Simple HTTP(S) server for Git Large File Storage with PAM authentication.

$ ./lfs_server.sh -help
Start Git LFS server

  lfs_server [ROOT]

=== flags ===

  [-cert file]    File of certificate for https
  [-key file]     File of private key for https
  [-p port]       TCP port to listen on
  [-pam service]  PAM service name for user authentication
  [-s address]    IP address to listen on
  [-verbose]      Verbose logging
  [-build-info]   print info about this build and exit
  [-version]      print the version of this build and exit
  [-help]         print this help text and exit
                  (alias: -?)

By default, it starts on http://localhost:8080 and treats current directory as ROOT. All object files are stored locally in ROOT/.lfs/objects directory.

INSTALL

From binary packages:

• Linux x64
• Mac OS X x64

RUN

HTTP server without authentication

./lfs_server.sh -verbose -s IP_ADDRESS -p PORT

A server will ignore credentials passed by LFS client, and accept all connections. To enable authentication, you need to specify PAM service.

HTTP server with PAM authentication

./lfs_server.sh -verbose -pam login -s IP_ADDRESS -p PORT

It will use built-in login PAM service defined in /etc/pam.d/login file.

Warning: LFS client uses HTTP basic authentication, so using HTTPS is a must!

HTTPS server with PAM authentication

./lfs_server.sh -verbose -pam login -s IP_ADDRESS -p PORT -cert domain.crt -key domain.key

Example

Download and install the LFS server as described above. You will also need to install the GIT LFS client.

# Start a LFS server
./lfs_server.sh

# Clone a repo
git clone ....
cd repo

# Add a normal file
touch test.txt
git add test.txt
git commit -m "normal file"

# Add a lfs file 
git lfs install
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.bin count=10240 bs=1024   # Create a file which is 10MB
git lfs track test.bin
git add .gitattributes test.bin
git commit -m "lfs file"

# Configure lfs remote to local server
git config -f .lfsconfig lfs.url http://localhost:8080
git add .lfsconfig
git commit -m "lfs config"

# Push changes
git push

TODO

• Multi server support
• Create OPAM package
• Add max file size option
• Add connection timeouts
• Authentication
• Automated tests
• Setup Travis continuous builds
• Setup Coverals
• Remove incomplete/broken temporary files
• Upload validation (calculate SHA-256 digest)
• Reject uppercase SHA-256 hex digests
• Fix HTTPS urls
• Rearrange files in release package and remove redundant libs
• Add logging
• Check SIGQUIT and SIGINT are handled correctly
• HTTPS support (trivial to add)
• Speed-up uploading (fixed in cohttp, see #330)