Git dependency with LFS objects

[fstephany]

Describe the problem you are trying to solve

I'm trying to add a (non public) crate as a git dependency. The linked git repository stores binary files with git LFS. Those binary files are then included in the code with the relevant macros (include_str/include_bytes).

Right now, the lfs objects are not retrieved.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would be great to have the possibility to specify something along the line: some-crate = { git = "<git repo>, use-lfs=true } when declaring a dependency.

[dan-zozo]

Hi @fstephany … have you determine a successful workaround / strategy to handle this problem? I'm interested to hear if this is the case.

[fstephany]

Hey @dan-zozo, no I don't think so. If I remember correctly, we ended up storing the files in the repository without LFS.

[weihanglo]

I guess it's not possible getting this feature any sooner, since Cargo internally uses libgit2 which is not aware of git-lfs.

I am reading the implementation of the config net.git-fetch-with-cli and found it invokes git fetch, where git-lfs interception might not work (there is no working directory checkout in git fetch).

[bhgomes]

I think this is an important feature for cargo to have since one may want to use some large data set to construct a Rust library. Is there any update on this?