diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
index d5af60f13aebaffa244a57e0971a98b0218f11ad..83dddfb22ef99135eb4abcc218da8aefc0941947 100644
--- a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-no-rosinstall.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ image: docker:git
 
 variables:
   TMPDIR: "/builds/${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}"
+  GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE: "1" # Avoid fetching the files from LFS when doing git fetch
 
 services:
   - docker:dind
diff --git a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
index a75d1b6fec9b08ef04909ed4e3c3179ea88717cc..5acf0fa938985daa507df0b51c71ba44d3e1b5de 100644
--- a/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-industrial-ci-kinetic-with-rosinstall.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ image: docker:git
 
 variables:
   TMPDIR: "/builds/${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}"
+  GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE: "1" # Avoid fetching the files from LFS when doing git fetch
 
 services:
   - docker:dind