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[FEATURE REQUEST] option to clone a repo with LFS disabled

WesNetmo
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July 18, 2025
Hello everyone!
When I clone a repo via SourceTree's own gui, all the large binaries get downloaded automatically without any warning. I don't think this is meant to work like this because immediately afterward I received a prompt saying ~"do you want to download the LFS files?".... except SourceTree already did! All of them! LFS should be disabled by default if you ask me. Only when the user explicitly runs git lfs pull the large files should be downloaded.

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE
=1 git clone https://github.com/FooBar/Baz

OR there should be a checkmark when cloning asking you whether you want to download LFS or not... 
Thank you in advance!

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Tomislav Tobijas
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July 26, 2025

Hi @WesNetmo ,

I'm not sure if the team follows requests here, but you could check for open suggestions on JAC.

What I/we usually do is to reach out to Atlassian Support and discuss the requirement with them, which can then result in one of their team member opening a new feature request on JAC. 👀
*if they do so, feel free to share created suggestion here

Cheers,
Tobi

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