GitHub - getgat-dev/gat: Simple, fast, versioned large-file storage for git 🚀 https://getgat.dev

Simple, fast, versioned large-file storage for git.

gat is what git-lfs would be if it didn't need a special server, and what dvc would be if it did one thing. Point it at S3, Azure Blob, GCS, and other object stores (or a plain directory), gat add your large files or directories, and keep using git exactly as before — commit, push, pull, clone all just work. No clean/smudge filter magic: gat sync reconciles the working tree with the current gat.lock file or shard directory. Git hooks installed by gat init run sync after checkout, merge/pull, and rebase/amend. Each clone needs gat init; use gat pull to download content missing from its cache.

Install

Linux / macOS

curl -fsSL https://getgat.dev/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://getgat.dev/install.ps1)))

This downloads the latest matching release archive, verifies its checksum, and installs gat to your user-local bin directory. Add that directory to your PATH if prompted. See Installation for version-pinned installs, manual downloads, and Cargo-based source installs.

Alternatively, install from source with Cargo:

cargo install --locked --bin gat --git https://github.com/getgat-dev/gat gat

Building gat from source requires Rust 1.91 or newer (the minimum supported Rust version, or MSRV, tracked by rust-version in Cargo.toml). Bumping the MSRV is considered a breaking change.

Quick example

Run inside an existing Git repository, using a file Git does not already track. Replace the bucket and region and configure storage credentials.

gat init
gat remote add origin 's3://my-bucket/assets?region=eu-west-1'
gat add models/encoder.safetensors
git add gat.lock gat.yaml
git commit -m "Track encoder weights with gat"
gat push --remote origin

Adding a remote does not select a default. Use --remote origin for each transfer, or run gat remote default origin. See remote setup for sharing storage configuration and How Gat works for the lock, cache, and working files.

Docs

Open the documentation at getgat.dev.

• Quickstart — track, push, and pull your first file
• Installation — prerequisites and setup
• Set up a remote — connect storage and choose a default
• Gat MCP server — connect your AI tool to the docs
• Commands — reference, one page per subcommand

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for dev setup and PR conventions.