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How do I install a git repo that requires git-lfs, but the git repo itself has a "virtualized" version of git-lfs that saves me from having to install git-lfs globally, without first installing git-lfs globally?

Many of our (PRG's) repos use "virtualize" tools to keep all tools needed for that repo local to the repo itself. It saves a ton of headaches regarding knowing which tools you need to install, and more importantly, prevents tool conflicts from happening.

See https://github.com/mitmedialab/virtualize. And here is an example repo that uses virtualize (though it's using old versions and is not a very good example, but it is public, for some reason): https://github.com/mitmedialab/jibo-station-wifi-service

There is one tool however that is problimatic to virtualize: git-lfs. To clone a repo that has git-lfs files in it, you need to have git-lfs installed before you clone the repo.

This repo helps bootstrap that process.

To use

clone this repo somewhere, and set it up:

git clone https://github.com/mitmedialab/git-lfs-bootstrapper
cd git-lfs-bootstrapper
./setup.sh

This should install a virtualized copy of Homebrew that exists only inside this repo. Then it should use Homebrew to install git-lfs.

Next activate your shell so that git-lfs is in your path.

source ./activate

Now your prompt should have a line that indicates that the virtualized tools have been activated for this shell.

Now go clone the repo that depends on git-lfs and it should come down fine. After you ./setup.sh that repo then you can depened on the git-lfs in the virtualized-homebrew there. You can exit this shell and do source ./activate in the new repo` and continue living the good-life.

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