When trying to run external executables, MATLAB will use the "PATH" environment variable (which is the Operating System's equivalent of MATLAB's internal 'path'). This error can occur if MATLAB is receiving a different value of PATH than command-line Git (one which does not contain the "git-lfs" executable).
Regardless of the values of the $PATH, the error can be resolved with the following steps:
- Find the location of the "git-lfs" executable, by running the command in a system terminal (i.e. not in MATLAB's Command Window):This will print the full path of the "git-lfs" executable (for example, /usr/local/bin/git-lfs).which git-lfs
- Open the file ~/.gitconfig, which is where Git stores its configuration.
- Replace any commands referring to "git-lfs" with its full path. For example, if "git-lfs" is at /usr/local/bin/git-lfs, the following line:would be replaced with:\ngit config --global filter.lfs.clean "git-lfs clean -- %f"git config --global filter.lfs.clean "/usr/local/bin/git-lfs clean -- %f"
This will make sure that, even when run from within MATLAB with a different $PATH value, Git will always load this exact file for "git-lfs".
