It would be helpful to be able to test this program from the command line. However, the scant documentation makes this a challenge.

Presumably, the git command-line client with the Git LFS extension invokes git-lfs-transfer with the path from lfs.url stored in .lfsconfig. So, if a git user types the following from the top-level directory of a git repo:

$ git config -f .lfsconfig lfs.url ssh://mslinn@gojira/mnt/_/work/git/eval_bare_repo

Then .lfsconfig will have at least the following:

[lfs]
        url = ssh://mslinn@gojira/mnt/_/work/git/eval_bare_repo

... which (I think) means the Git command-line client will issue a command something like the following when fetching an LFS file:

ssh mslinn@gojira git-lfs-transfer /mnt/_/work/git/eval_bare_repo download

When I type the above incantation, the response is:

000eversion=1
000clocking
0000

And then the program appears to pause, awaiting input.

I would like to test upload and download. Is this possible? If so, how?

I am attempting to document two variations of this scenario: a bare git repo on a server, without a git server and without a Git LFS server.

1. via ssh - the reason for this issue
2. via samba / local protocol (file: URI schema) - you aren't concerned with this

Later I will move on to documenting the other scenarios, all of which involve a git server, and most of which involve a Git LFS server.