Can I use separate remote repositories for "regular" files and LFS?

[the-drunk-coder]

Hi,

I wonder whether it's possible to use one repo (on GitHub or GitLab) for the code and one (on my own server) for large (audio) files?

I have a little VPS and could install something like Soft Serve that I could use for the LFS part. I sense this would be possible but I couldn't piece it fully together so far, so I wonder if someone could give me a hint here.

Do I need to create a repo on the LFS server?

I'd rather use my already existing OwnCloud space, i.e. with local folder storage, but I've read in another thread that this isn't recommendable.

[bk2204]

You can use a separate remote for LFS files using the lfs.url setting, which can be added in .lfsconfig in the repository if you want. That way you can store the LFS files elsewhere. The git-lfs-config(5) documentation outlines how to set it.

If you want a small Git LFS server, we also offer https://github.com/git-lfs/lfs-test-server/ as an option. It can be used in production in a number of configurations.

If you were planning on using OwnCloud to mount some cloud data as a cloud syncing service, then no, that wouldn't be recommended for storing repositories since it can very much cause corruption.