git lfs clone vs git clone

Question

If I have git lfs installed on the client and I run:

git clone

is this equivalent to

git lfs clone

or will d

Answer 1

Cloning at light speed with git lfs clone

A new feature you definitely want to take advantage of if you have a very large repository, and especially if you're on Windows, is the specialized LFS clone command:

git lfs clone ssh://git@mybb-server.com:7999/lfs/repo.git my-clone

The git lfs clone command operates exactly like git clone and takes all the same arguments, but has one important difference: it's a lot faster! Depending on the number of files you have it can be more than 10x faster in fact.

Read through this article to understand behind the scenes of git lfs clone vs git clone https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/04/git-lfs-12-clone-faster/