Commit 3207d17f authored by Amy Qualls's avatar Amy Qualls Committed by Evan Read

BFG is deprecated and shouldn't be recommended

parent 5c2ac9ab
......@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ description: "How to migrate an existing Git repository to Git LFS with BFG."
# Migrate a Git repository into Git LFS with BFG
WARNING:
The following documentation is deprecated. We recommend using
[`git lfs migrate`](https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/main/docs/man/git-lfs-migrate.1.ronn)
instead of the method documented below.
Using Git LFS can help you to reduce the size of your Git
repository and improve its performance.
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......@@ -388,7 +388,6 @@ git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm filename' HEAD
The `git filter-branch` command might be slow on large repositories.
Tools are available to execute Git commands more quickly.
An alternative is the open source community-maintained tool [BFG](https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/).
These tools are faster because they do not provide the same
feature set as `git filter-branch` does, but focus on specific use cases.
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