git-lfs-swift-transfer-agent is an implementation of the custom transfer type swift for Git LFS. Please see git-lfs-swift-server for the server-side implementation.

OpenStack Swift clusters have a maximum object size (5 GiB per default). Objects larger in size have to be split into smaller segments. The basic transfer agent shipped by git-lfs has no knowledge about this. The git-lfs-swift transfer agent is able to handle large objects.

In principle, only the script git_lfs_swift_transfer.py (with executable permission) and the python-swiftclient is required. You can also use setuptools to install the python-swiftclient requirement and to install the transfer script to the default location:

git clone https://github.com/cbartz/git-lfs-swift-transfer-agent
cd git-lfs-swift-transfer-agent
python setup.py install

Please see https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/custom-transfers.md. In principle, the configuration:

lfs.customtransfer.swift.path /path/to/git_lfs_swift_transfer.py

is sufficient for your particular git repository. But there are optional configuration parameters, which can be set with the git configuration variable lfs.custromtransfer.swift.args :

• --logfile /path/to/file write logs to specified file
• --loglevel LVL choose one of: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL
• --use-slo per default, DLOs are used to store large objects. If not supported or wanted, SLOs can be used with this option.
• --segment-size n The size of the segments for large objects. Files larger than this size, gets split up. If not specified, 5 GiB are used.
• --tempdir /path/to/dir git-lfs downloads the files first to a specified directory, before moving to the final destination. With this option, the download directory can be specified. If not specified, it is tried to create a temporary directory inside python.

So, for example, if logs with a loglevel DEBUG are desired to the file /tmp/logfile, do the configuration as follows:

lfs.customtransfer.swift.args --logfile /tmp/logfile --loglevel DEBUG

Please be aware, that if logging and concurrency is used (with lfs.customtransfer.swift.concurrent), depending on your running platform, the logfiles could end up mangled.