LFS not working on Apple Silicon with Monterey

[mihakrajnc]

Version info

• OS: macOS 12.3
• Build: 2068

Description

Trying to do any operation (commit / switch branch) in a project using git-lfs does not work, and always fails with: This repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path. If you no longer wish to use Git LFS, remove this hook by deleting '.git/hooks/post-checkout'.

Working with the repository from the command line works as expected. I have Git Binary set to "system".

It could to be related to this issue: #147

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use an M1 Mac (in my case an M1 Pro MacBook)
2. Install git-lfs with Homebrew and make sure it's set up.
3. Clone a project that uses LFS using the terminal
4. Open the project is Sublime Merge and try to make a commit / switch a branch.

Expected behavior

Operations should be performed normally without errors.

[mihakrajnc]

Small note, if I start Sublime Merge from terminal with open -n ./Sublime\ Merge.app the lfs issue is gone. I'm not completely sure what that means though.

[dpjohnst]

Hi @mihakrajnc,

Thanks for reporting this issue and apologies for the delay - I will investigate this further.

Could you please share the following when you have a spare moment:

• The output of which git-lfs from the terminal
• The Sublime Merge Debug Information for the repository mentioned
  • This can be accessed in Sublime Merge via the application menu under (Help > Debug Information)
  • Before sharing this, please take a moment to redact any information that's confidential (file paths, Git user credentials, remotes etc)

Kind regards, - Dylan Johnston

[PhilipTrauner]

Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I'm facing the same issue.

• which git-lfs

  opt/homebrew/bin/git-lfs
  

• launchctl getenv PATH

  opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:.:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
  

• echo $PATH

  opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/usr/bin
  

• Debug Information (when launched with smerge)

  === App Version Information ===
  Build: 2077
  
  === Git Version Information ===
  Using Git: git (system)
  git version 2.37.0 (Apple Git-136)
  PATH: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin (from shell)
  environment variables loaded using: /opt/homebrew/bin/zsh -l
  
  === Git Config Information ===
  branch.main.merge=refs/heads/main
  branch.main.remote=origin
  core.bare=false
  core.filemode=true
  core.ignorecase=true
  core.logallrefupdates=true
  core.precomposeunicode=true
  core.repositoryformatversion=0
  credential.helper=osxkeychain
  filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f
  filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
  filter.lfs.required=true
  filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
  init.defaultbranch=main
  lfs.repositoryformatversion=0
  remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
  [email protected]
  user.name=Philip Trauner
  
  === Our Config Information ===
  Git Config Path Information
  Using config path: /etc/gitconfig
  Using config path: /Users/philip/.config/git/config
  Using config path: /Users/philip/.gitconfig
  
  Our config output is different to the Git config output
  branch.main.merge=refs/heads/main
  branch.main.remote=origin
  core.bare=false
  core.filemode=true
  core.ignorecase=true
  core.logallrefupdates=true
  core.precomposeunicode=true
  core.repositoryformatversion=0
  filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f
  filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
  filter.lfs.required=true
  filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
  lfs.repositoryformatversion=0
  remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
  [email protected]
  user.name=Philip Trauner
  

[srbs]

@PhilipTrauner, it does not look like the PATH is setup correctly for non-interactive login shells with zsh:

  === Git Version Information ===
  PATH: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin (from shell)
  environment variables loaded using: /opt/homebrew/bin/zsh -l

[wandering-tales]

I have stumbled upon the very same error reported in #147 on a Mac OS Ventura.

The cause was a conflict between the version of Git included in Xcode Command Line Tools and the Git LFS version installed via HomeBrew.

Basically, the Git binary executable (git) expects the binary executable of the Git LFS extension to be located inside the directory of its execution path.

Even though the Git binary executable installed by Xcode Command Line Tools is physically located in /usr/bin/git

~ which git
/usr/bin/git

its execution path is another directory

~ git --exec-path
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core

Therefore git is not able to find git-lfs binary inside /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core, as the latter is located in /opt/opt/homebrew/bin/git-lfs

~ which git-lfs
/opt/homebrew/bin/git-lfs

One workaround could have been the following:

sudo ln -s "$(which git-lfs)" "$(git --exec-path)/git-lfs"

Unfortunately, in recent versions of Mac OS that command does not work:

~ sudo ln -s "$(which git-lfs)" "$(git --exec-path)/git-lfs"
ln: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/libexec/git-core/git-lfs: Operation not permitted

That error is due to the System Integrity Protection, aka "SIP", a feature enabled in recent versions of Mac OS. It basically makes parts of the file system read-only to everybody, including root: even prepending sudo, as shown above, is ineffective.

Said that, the only solution that worked for me was installing also Git via brew

~ brew install git

ensuring that the HomeBrew binaries have precedence over system ones:

~ echo $PATH
opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin

[ioannis-koukourakis]

Same problem here. Git lfs installed and configured for the entire repo, yet can't commit large files when switching to mac. Works fine on my Win PC.