remove references to LFS (#16722)

### Tickets
Closes #2723
Closes #4435

### Problem description
We get charged $$$$ for LFS usage, LFS clone has introduced intermittent
failures in CI, and it adds complexity to our install process.

### What's changed
Goodbye LFS

### Checklist
- [x] Post commit CI passes
- [ ] Blackhole Post commit (if applicable)
- [ ] Model regression CI testing passes (if applicable)
- [ ] Device performance regression CI testing passes (if applicable)
- [ ] **(For models and ops writers)** Full [new
models](https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-metal/actions/workflows/full-new-models-suite.yaml)
tests passes
- [ ] New/Existing tests provide coverage for changes

.github/actions/checkout-with-submodule-lfs/action.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: "Checkout recursively with submodules and LFS"
+name: "Checkout recursively with submodules"
 description: "Installs tt-metal extra dev dependencies on ubuntu-20.04 GitHub Actions runners"
 
 inputs:
@@ -27,12 +27,9 @@ runs:
       with:
         token: ${{ inputs.token }}
         fetch-depth: ${{ inputs.fetch-depth }}
-        lfs: true
+        lfs: false
         submodules: recursive
         clean: true
     - name: Clean each submodule
       shell: bash
       run: git submodule foreach 'git clean -xffd'
-    - name: Fetch and pull LFS objects for each submodule
-      shell: bash
-      run: git submodule foreach 'git lfs fetch && git lfs pull'

.github/actions/install-metal-dev-deps/dependencies.json

@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 {
-  "_comments": "We do not include git and git-lfs here along with the PPA command 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa' for registering the apt repository to install those packages because we were timing out the GPG fetching by hammering it",
+  "_comments": "We do not include git here along with the PPA command 'sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa' for registering the apt repository to install those packages because we were timing out the GPG fetching by hammering it",
   "ubuntu-20.04": [
     "git",
-    "git-lfs",
     "pandoc",
     "pkg-config",
     "ninja-build"
   ],
   "ubuntu-22.04": [
     "git",
-    "git-lfs",    
     "pandoc",
     "pkg-config",
     "ninja-build",

.gitignore

@@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ venv/
 # releases
 dist
 
-# exclude dtx generated files
-tt_metal/third_party/lfs/dtx_transform_outputs
-
 #exclude reports dir
 .reports/*
 

.gitmodules

@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "third_party/lfs"]
-	path = tt_metal/third_party/lfs
-	url = https://github.com/tenstorrent-metal/lfs.git
 [submodule "tt_metal/third_party/taskflow"]
 	path = tt_metal/third_party/taskflow
 	url = https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow

INSTALLING.md

@@ -48,21 +48,13 @@ sudo ./install_dependencies.sh
 > If you do not want to use the models or follow the tutorials and want to
 > immediately start using the API, you may install just the wheel or get the release Docker container.
 
-1. Install git and git-lfs.
-
-```sh
-sudo apt install git git-lfs
-```
-
-2. Clone the repo.
+1. Clone the repo.
 
 ```sh
 git clone https://github.com/tenstorrent/tt-metal.git --recurse-submodules
-cd tt-metal
-git submodule foreach 'git lfs fetch --all && git lfs pull'
 ```
 
-3. Install either from source, or from our release wheel. Note that if you are
+2. Install either from source, or from our release wheel. Note that if you are
 going to try using the model demos, we highly recommend you install from
 source.
 

install_dependencies.sh

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ ub_package_list()
 {
     UB_LIST=(\
      git \
-     git-lfs \
      build-essential \
      cmake \
      software-properties-common \

models/demos/t3000/llama3_70b/setup_llama.sh

@@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ check_and_build_tt_metal() {
     if [[ ! -d "python_env" ]]; then
         git checkout "${TT_METAL_COMMIT_SHA_OR_TAG}"
         git submodule update --init --recursive
-        git submodule foreach 'git lfs fetch --all && git lfs pull'
         ./build_metal.sh
         ./create_venv.sh
         source python_env/bin/activate

scripts/docker/requirements-20.04.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ dialog
 software-properties-common=0.99.9.12
 build-essential=12.8ubuntu1.1
 git
-git-lfs
 pandoc
 libtbb-dev
 libcapstone-dev

scripts/docker/requirements-22.04.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ build-essential
 gcc-12
 g++-12
 git
-git-lfs
 pandoc
 libtbb-dev
 libcapstone-dev

tt-train/.github/workflows/builld_and_test_all.yaml

@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
-          lfs: true
-
-      - name: LFS pull
-        run: |
-          git submodule foreach --recursive git lfs pull
+          lfs: false
 
       # actions/checkout runs `git clean -ffdx && git reset --hard HEAD` before fetching
       # but `build`, `build_Release`, `built` (contains compiled kernels) dirs are not removed because they are in .gitignore

tt-train/init_repo.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 # Description: Initialize the repository with the necessary configurations
-git lfs install
 sudo apt install clang-tidy-17
 sudo apt install clang-format-17
 sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/clang-tidy-17 /usr/bin/clang-tidy