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Gitlint vs Git LFS: What are the differences?
What is Gitlint? Linting your Git commit messages. Git commit message linter written in python (for Linux and Mac, experimental on Windows), checks your commit messages for style.
What is Git LFS? An open source Git extension for versioning large files. It replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.
Gitlint and Git LFS can be categorized as "Git" tools.
Some of the features offered by Gitlint are:
- Auto-trigger validations against new commit message right when you're committing. Also works with pre-commit
- Designed to work with your own scripts or CI system
- Easily configurable
On the other hand, Git LFS provides the following key features:
- Large file versioning
- More repository space
- Faster cloning and fetching
Git LFS is an open source tool with 8.62K GitHub stars and 1.64K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Git LFS's open source repository on GitHub.
