git只为Gitlab CI上的LFS文件克隆sha

Question

I pushed .png files, each of which is 2+MB file size and tracked by git-lfs , to my gitlab.com repository, say repo_a . In CI job on another repo repo_b where git-lfs is installed, repo_a is cloned. Now I see the size of all .png files are 132, which seems to be the same volume as sha output (as the following. Note: some values are populated for privacy):

$ git show HEAD:file-a.png | tee sha_temp
version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
oid sha256:shashashaaaashashashaaaashashashaaaashashashaaaashashashaaaa
size 2430019
$ ls -l sha_temp 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 crookednoodle crookednoodle 132 Nov  7 05:35 sha_temp

However, On my computer instead on Gitlab CI, I can see the original files when I git clone the repo_a.

This makes me feel that the content of these files are still pointers, not the original files. I also noticed that on my computer, I see in the output the original files are downloaded like this:

Downloading file-a.png (2.5 MB)

But I don't see this in the output on CI job.

Obviously related, subsequent process that opens the images by OpenCV fails.

What is wrong?

Answer 1

Managed to solve (get around) the issue by myself. In the targeted repo, I modified the CI script to run git lfs pull .