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osterburg
osterburg

Reputation: 447

How to lock a file with git on BitBucket?

I am dealing with large files and have done git lfs install and followed all the steps listed here. But when I actually want to lock a file, i.e. git lfs lock <filename> I am getting the following error:

Lock failed: Repository or object not found: https://bitbucket.org/%7B%7D/%7B6cc70c4a-2d65-4a6d-b827-c37e61c63245%7D/info/lfs/locks

Check that it exists and that you have proper access to it

Is there anything I am missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3459

Answers (1)

Shazic
Shazic

Reputation: 400

This may be a little late to answer this question, but for the benefit of those looking for answer to the same question, let me put it here.
Installing lfs is not sufficient to start tracking large files. We need to tell Git which files to track as large files by the LFS using the git lfs track command. If you want to be able to ‘lock’ these files, you must also include the --lockable flag.

For example:

git lfs track '<pattern>' --lockable

This needs to be done for each repository.

For more information see documentation https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-lfs#locking-files

Upvotes: 2

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