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Indeed similar to git-annex, why does GitHub not support that? With GitLab we added support for that recently and it was pretty easy to do. Anyway, interesting that linking to sha's is becoming the default solution. Looking forward to playing with this and comparing the solutions.

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Because they are going to charge for LFS, I suspect. Just as they don't support private repos for free, either.

They could also charge for git-annex I think. It is not that they need their own type of private repo's to charge for that. By the way, GitLab.com offers unlimited repo's and 5GB per repo for free.

How many users/how long will you be able to provide that for free?

Forever, our business model is to make money with on-premises software (GitLab EE). In the long term we might add a marketplace to GitLab.com were you can subscribe to additional services (like Heroku does).

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