Using Codeberg’s git-pages deployment with git lfs

At the end of the year, Codeberg will shut down its old Codeberg Pages server, in favor of the already deployed, git-pages-based alternative.1. For many deployments, migration will be quite straight-forward, requiring little more than using a webhook, as outlined in the migration guide. And this page has already for a few months now been served by the git-pages server, without any problems. There is only one little but for the migration path, which affects pages that so far relied on git lfs for storing larger asset files like images and that are trying to directly serve from a repository without a build stage: git-pages does not (and probably never will) support git lfs. I ran into this problem (without noticing it) when I migrated my talks, which are all just HTML files generated locally by marpit, and for which I like keeping the images in the lfs. When I was preparing a new slide deck for a conference, I noticed that the images didn’t show up when I wanted to share a draft with a…