Please increase the GitHub LFS limit for this repository

[eenagy]

Cloning the eth-clients/holesky repository into vendor/holesky fails for (nimbus build) to download metadata/genesis.ssz (206 MB) due to the repository exceeding its Git LFS budget, causing a smudge filter failure.

Error Details

Cloning into 'vendor/holesky'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 775, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (296/296), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (45/45), done.
remote: Total 775 (delta 278), reused 251 (delta 251), pack-reused 479 (from 2)
Receiving objects: 100% (775/775), 140.74 MiB | 5.35 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (425/425), done.
Updating files: 100% (51/51), done.
Downloading metadata/genesis.ssz (206 MB)
Error downloading object: metadata/genesis.ssz (d750639): Smudge error: Error downloading metadata/genesis.ssz (d750639607c337bbb192b15c27f447732267bf72d1650180a0e44c2d93a80741): batch response: This repository exceeded its LFS budget.
Errors logged to 'eth-node-nimbus-eth2/25.7.1-1/vendor/holesky/.git/lfs/logs/20250731T120850.316261981.log'.
error: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed
fatal: metadata/genesis.ssz: smudge filter lfs failed
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run git clone https://github.com/eth-clients/holesky.git vendor/holesky in the nimbus repository.
2. Observe the Git LFS error during the clone process.

Request

Increase the Git LFS budget for the eth-clients/holesky repository to allow downloading metadata/genesis.ssz.

[etan-status]

Nimbus picks up its own copy of genesis.ssz from https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/download/v23.9.1/holesky-genesis.ssz.sz (Snappy compressed SSZ), it's not necessary to download it via the submodule. You can use make update to initialize the Nimbus submodules in a way that skips the unneeded LFS downloads.

[eenagy]

Thanks @etan-status, appreciate the quick reply. Unfortunately, this repo is still uncloneable even if I use make update on nimbus,
see that the windows build also fails on nimbus CI as well: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/actions/runs/16643042021/job/47097089227.
I think this repository still should be cloneable, not sure why this stopped working as it was working fine over the last year or so without any issues.

[etan-status]

For Windows, try MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 make update - there is an issue with certain msys2 setups where the lfs.fetchexclude paths otherwise get mangled.

We have fixed this here (but only on unstable branch so far): https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7337/files