[feature request] Include Git LFS files in archives

[pekkarr]

Including Git LFS files in source code archives would make it easier to package makehuman for Linux distributions. Downloading assets via a tar/zip archive is usually the preferred way to download build sources compared to downloading with git-lfs.

Currently the generated archives (example) contain only references to large files and the actual git-lfs files are missing, which makes the archives practically unusable.

It's possible to include git-lfs files in archives from Github repository settings. The option is under General -> Archives -> Include Git LFS objects in archives.

[joepal1976]

Ok. This option did not exist when we created this repo, but I have enabled it now.

We'll see how this affect the billing. If people start downloading huge zip files now and then instead of keeping a git directory to update, we might hit the quota sooner rather than later.

[pekkarr]

Thank you. I have updated the AUR build script (for Arch Linux) to use the tar archive as source for now. This leads probably to lower bandwidth usage from Arch users as the previous implementation didn't cache git-lfs files between package rebuilds.

It would also be helpful to use git tags to mark the commits that are supposed to be used with a specific makehuman version (so v1.2.0 makehuman-assets would be used with makehuman v1.2.0).

[joepal1976]

Seems the only tag missing was for 1.2.0. I've pushed this.

[joepal1976]

As feared, we rather quickly hit the bandwidth quota after this change. The download functionality is probably locked for now.

The quota will reset tomorrow and I'll evaluate the settings during the next month.

I'm generally disinclined to radically increase spending on LFS traffic. If the repo hits the limit again, we'll have to figure out some other solution.