title: How large does a "large file" have to be to benefit from Git LFS?
body: <p>I'm reading about <a href="https://git-lfs.github.com/" rel="noreferrer">Git LFS</a> and see time and again that it works great for &quot;large files&quot;</p>
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  <p>Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos[...]</p>
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  <p>Version large files—even those as large as a couple GB in size—with Git.</p>
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  <p>Git Large File Storage (LFS) is a free, open-source extension that replaces large files with text pointers inside Git and stores the contents of those files on a remote server.</p>
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  <p>Unfortunately, I don't see anywhere what a &quot;large file&quot; actually is. It's clear that something that takes up several gigabytes is a large file, but what about something smaller?</p>
  <p>Will I benefit from Git LFS with &quot;large files&quot; as small as 50 MB? 20MB? 5MB? 1MB? Less than 1MB?</p>
  <p>How large does a &quot;large file&quot; have to be to benefit from Git LFS compared to regular Git?</p>