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> LFS adds its own operational overhead.

Seemingly seconds on every remote-touching command, even on a very small repo.

 help



What is worse is that for about half a year or so, I now have to authenticate my ed25519-sk key with my Yubikey thrice (!) when using LFS. On every push.

That they didn't go with git annex was such a fit of NIH of a mistake.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. git-annex is not strictly better, LFS just chose different tradeoffs.



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