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error: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed

ID: git/filter-process-failed

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85%Fix Rate
87%Confidence
50Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

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Root Cause

Git's filter process protocol encounters an error, typically when git-lfs is configured in .gitattributes but the git-lfs binary is not installed or not found in PATH.

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Workarounds

  1. 92% success Install git-lfs and run git lfs install 
    Install git-lfs via package manager (apt install git-lfs, brew install git-lfs), then run git lfs install to register the filter hooks globally.

    Sources: https://git-lfs.com

  2. 80% success Unset the filter if LFS is not needed 
    If LFS is not needed, remove LFS entries from .gitattributes and run git config --global --unset filter.lfs.process

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Removing .gitattributes to bypass the filter 85% fail

    This disables LFS tracking for the entire repo; large files become checked in directly, bloating the repository permanently

  2. Downgrading git version to avoid filter-process protocol 75% fail

    Older git versions use the single-file filter protocol which is slower and still fails if the filter binary is missing

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