git-sfs: Large File Storage Without the LFS Server

The Problem You added a 2 GB dataset to a repo. Now git clone takes 10 minutes, CI downloads the full history on every run, and GitHub is billing you per GB transferred. You switch to Git LFS - and now you need a server, a token, and a storage plan. You try DVC - and now you need Python, a pipeline config, and lock files that conflict on every PR. None of this is the actual problem. The actual problem is: large files don't belong in Git objects. Everything else is overhead. Meet git-sfs SFS stan