diff --git a/.hooks-config b/.hooks-config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5fe63d350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.hooks-config
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Loaded by .git/hooks/(pre-commit|commit-msg|prepare-commit-msg)
+# during git commit after local hooks have been installed.
+
+[hooks "chain"]
+	pre-commit = utilities/git/pre-commit
+	pre-push = utilities/git/pre-push
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d535de68e..7a77cbf39 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -167,9 +167,6 @@ if (NOT data STREQUAL "\n")
     "Testing is enabled, but the data is not available. Use git lfs in order "
     " to obtain the testing data.")
   set(VTKm_ENABLE_TESTING off)
-  if (CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS)
-    set(CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS off)
-  endif()
 endif()
 
 # We include the wrappers unconditionally as VTK-m expects the function to
@@ -340,6 +337,8 @@ if (VTKm_ENABLE_TESTING)
   # installed version of VTK-m.
   include(testing/VTKmTestInstall)
   vtkm_test_install()
+else ()
+  set(CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS off)
 endif()
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Utilities/GitSetup/git-gitlab-push b/Utilities/GitSetup/git-gitlab-push
index a7128cecd..ae33ac8a1 100755
--- a/Utilities/GitSetup/git-gitlab-push
+++ b/Utilities/GitSetup/git-gitlab-push
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ OPTIONS
     Show what would be pushed without actually updating the destination
 
 -f,--force
-    Force-push the topic HEAD to rewrite the destination branch
+    Force-push the topic HEAD to rewrite the destination branch (use twice
+    to ignore stale remote tracking branches)
 
 --no-default
     Do not push the default branch (e.g. master)
@@ -73,7 +74,14 @@ set_upstream=true
 # Parse the command line options.
 while test $# != 0; do
 	case "$1" in
-		-f|--force)    force='+'; lease=true ;;
+		-f|--force)
+			if test -n "$force"; then
+				lease=false
+			else
+				lease=true
+			fi
+			force='+'
+			;;
 		--no-topic)    no_topic=1; set_upstream=false ;;
 		--dry-run)     dry_run=--dry-run ;;
 		--no-default)  no_default=1 ;;
diff --git a/Utilities/GitSetup/setup-lfs b/Utilities/GitSetup/setup-lfs
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1ee6d3b19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Utilities/GitSetup/setup-lfs
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#=============================================================================
+# Copyright 2017 Kitware, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#=============================================================================
+
+# Run this script to set up the local Git repository to push LFS data to
+# remotes.
+
+die() {
+	echo 1>&2 "$@" ; exit 1
+}
+
+# Make sure we are inside the repository.
+cd "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}" &&
+
+# Set the LFS filter configuration up.
+if git lfs version; then
+	git config filter.lfs.clean "git-lfs clean -- %f" &&
+	git config filter.lfs.smudge "git-lfs smudge -- %f" &&
+	git config filter.lfs.process "git-lfs filter-process" &&
+	git config filter.lfs.required true &&
+	git lfs fetch &&
+	git lfs checkout &&
+	echo 'LFS is now configured.'
+else
+	die 'Git LFS is not available. Please make it available on the PATH' \
+		'either by installing it through your system provider or installing it' \
+		'from <https://git-lfs.github.com>.'
+fi
diff --git a/Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh b/Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh
index 651fc6faf..720a7d974 100755
--- a/Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh
+++ b/Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 cd "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/.." &&
 Utilities/GitSetup/setup-user && echo &&
 Utilities/GitSetup/setup-hooks && echo &&
+Utilities/GitSetup/setup-lfs && echo &&
 (Utilities/GitSetup/setup-upstream ||
  echo 'Failed to setup origin.  Run this again to retry.') && echo &&
 (Utilities/GitSetup/setup-gitlab ||
@@ -27,3 +28,6 @@ echo "Set up git gitlab-push" &&
 git config alias.gitlab-sync '!bash Utilities/GitSetup/git-gitlab-sync' &&
 echo "Set up git gitlab-sync" &&
 true
+
+SetupForDevelopment=1
+git config hooks.SetupForDevelopment ${SetupForDevelopment_VERSION}
diff --git a/Utilities/hooks/pre-commit b/Utilities/hooks/pre-commit
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..2df9e7620
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Utilities/hooks/pre-commit
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-Clause License.  See accompanying
+# file Copyright.txt or https://cmake.org/licensing for details.
+
+die() {
+  echo 'pre-commit hook failure' 1>&2
+  echo '-----------------------' 1>&2
+  echo '' 1>&2
+  echo "$@" 1>&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# Check that development setup is up-to-date.
+lastSetupForDevelopment=$(git config --get hooks.SetupForDevelopment || echo 0)
+eval $(grep '^SetupForDevelopment_VERSION=' "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/../SetupForDevelopment.sh")
+test -n "$SetupForDevelopment_VERSION" || SetupForDevelopment_VERSION=0
+if test $lastSetupForDevelopment -lt $SetupForDevelopment_VERSION; then
+  die 'Developer setup in this work tree is out of date.  Please re-run
+
+  Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh
+'
+fi
diff --git a/Utilities/hooks/pre-push b/Utilities/hooks/pre-push
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e930f484f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Utilities/hooks/pre-push
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+command -v git-lfs >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo >&2 "\nThis repository is configured for Git LFS but 'git-lfs' was not found on your path.\n"; exit 2; }
+git lfs pre-push "$@"
diff --git a/Utilities/update-gitsetup.bash b/Utilities/update-gitsetup.bash
index 3644d8aea..b8b3bbe0f 100755
--- a/Utilities/update-gitsetup.bash
+++ b/Utilities/update-gitsetup.bash
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ README
 git-gitlab-push
 setup-gitlab
 setup-hooks
+setup-lfs
 setup-ssh
 setup-upstream
 setup-user