Features

• Add copy-on-write support for Linux BTRFS filesystem #952 (@bozaro)
• convert git:// remotes to LFS servers automatically #964 (@technoweenie)
• Fix git lfs track handling of absolute paths. #975 (@technoweenie)
• Allow tunable http client timeouts #977 (@technoweenie)

Bugs

• Suppress git config warnings for non-LFS keys #861 (@technoweenie)
• Fix fallthrough when git-lfs-authenticate returns an error #909 (@sinbad)
• Fix progress bar issue #883 (@pokehanai)
• Support remote.name.pushurl config #949 (@sinbad)
• Fix handling of GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE #963, #971 (@technoweenie)
• Fix handling of zero length files #966 (@nathanhi)
• Guard against invalid remotes passed to push and pre-push #974 (@technoweenie)
• Fix race condition in git lfs pull #972 (@technoweenie)

Extra

• Add server API test tool #868 (@sinbad)
• Redo windows installer with innosetup #875 (@strich)
• Pre-built packages are built with Go v1.5.3

Packages

RPM RHEL 5/CentOS 5
RPM RHEL 6/CentOS 6
RPM RHEL 7/CentOS 7
Debian 7
Debian 8

Windows Installer

We're currently working on getting new SHA and SHA2 certs for Git LFS. Once we have it, we'll re-upload the windows installer. For now, you can confirm the SHA-256 signature of the binaries manually:

• Installer - cf2e4143212420ab709febf0a3346f5d8300e8240e95a6c6bb17ac373cc4c1d6
• Git LFS (64bit) - e2e5fc60fb7871e57d949f10bb20369434e1f17edee0decdb7d9ee81bbe5016d
• Git LFS (32bit) - 4f91f96501610ed354530dc386b2f22ccc0eca69e939a667cfb49688839896ef

Features

• Add prune command #742 (@sinbad)
• NTLM auth support #820 (@WillHipschman, @technoweenie)

See the prune man page for info on how it works.

Changes

• Use .lfsconfig instead of .gitconfig #837 (@technoweenie)
• Rename "init" command #838 (@technoweenie)

Bug Fixes

• Raise error if credentials are needed #842 (@technoweenie)
• Support git repos in symlinked directories #818 (@sinbad, @difro, @jiangxin)
• Fix "git lfs env" to show correct SSH remote info #828 (@jiangxin)

Packages

• RPM RHEL 5/CentOS 5
• RPM RHEL 6/CentOS 6
• RPM RHEL 7/CentOS 7
• Debian 7
• Debian 8

• Fix issue with 'git lfs smudge' and the batch API. #795 (@technoweenie)
• Fix race condition in the git scanning code. #801 (@technoweenie)

• Downcase git config keys (prevents Auth loop) #690 (@WillHipschman)
• Show more info for unexpected http responses #710 (@rubyist)
• Use separate stdout/stderr buffers for git-lfs-authenticate #718 (@bozaro)
• Use LoggedError instead of Panic if update-index fails in checkout #735 (@sinbad)
• smudge command exits with non-zero if the download fails #732 (@rubyist)
• Use git rev-parse to find the git working dir #692 (@sinbad)
• Improved default remote behaviour & validation for fetch/pull #713 (@sinbad)
• Make fetch return error code when 1+ downloads failed #734 (@sinbad)
• Improve lfs.InRepo() detection in init/update #756 (@technoweenie)
• Teach smudge to use the batch api #711 (@rubyist)
• Fix not setting global attribute when needed to b/c of local state #765 (@sinbad)
• Fix clone fail when fetch is excluded globally #770 (@sinbad)
• Fix for partial downloads problem #763 (@technoweenie)
• Get integration tests passing on Windows #771 (@sinbad)

Security

• Whitelist the valid keys read from .gitconfig #760 (@technoweenie)

This prevents unsafe git configuration values from being used by Git LFS.

• Manual reference is integrated into the "help" options #665 @sinbad
• Fix ls-files when run from an empty repository #668 @Aorjoa
• Support listing duplicate files in ls-files #681 @Aorjoa @technoweenie
• update and init commands can install the pre-push hook in bare repositories #671 @technoweenie
• Add GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE and init --skip-smudge #679 @technoweenie

This is the first release that uses the new Batch API by default, while still
falling back to the Legacy API automatically. Also, new fetch/checkout/push
commands have been added.

Run git lfs update in any local repositories to make sure all config settings
are updated.

You can download RPM and Debian packages from https://packagecloud.io/github/git-lfs.

Fetch

• Rename old git lfs fetch command to git lfs pull. #527 (@sinbad)
• Add git lfs checkout #527 #543 #551 #566 (@sinbad)
• Add git lfs fetch for just downloading objects. #527 (@sinbad)
  • Add remote arg, and default to tracking remote instead of "origin". #583 (@sinbad)
  • Support fetching multiple refs #542 (@sinbad)
  • Add --include and --exclude flag for git lfs fetch #573 (@sinbad)
  • Add --recent flag for downloading recent files outside of the current checkout. #610 (@sinbad)
  • Add --all option for download all objects from the server. #633 (@sinbad)
• Fix error handling while git update-index is running. #570 (@rubyist)

See git-lfs-fetch(1), git-lfs-checkout(1), and git-lfs-pull(1) for details.

Push

• Support pushing multiple branches in the pre-push hook. #635 (@sinbad)
• Fix pushing objects from a branch that's not HEAD. #608 (@sinbad)
• Check server for objects before failing push because local is missing. #581 (@sinbad)
• Filter out commits from remote refs when pushing. #578 (@billygor)
• Support pushing all objects to the server, regardless of the remote ref. #646 (@technoweenie)
• Fix case where pre-push git hook exits with 0. #582 (@sinbad)

See git-lfs-push(1) for details.

API Clients

• Fix some race conditions in the Batch API client. #577 #637 (@sinbad, @rubyist)
• Support retries in the Batch API client. #595 (@rubyist)
• Fix hanging batch client in certain error conditions. #594 (@rubyist)
• Treat 401 responses as errors in the Legacy API client. #634 (@rubyist)
• Fix bug in the Legacy API client when the object already exists on the server. #572 (@billygor)

Credentials

• Fix how git credentials are checked in certain edge cases. #611 #650 (@technoweenie)
• Send URI user to git credentials. #626 (@sinbad)
• Support git credentials with useHttpPath enabled. #554 (@clareliguori)

Installation

• Docker images and scripts for building and testing linux packages. #511 #526 #555 #603 (@andyneff, @ssgelm)
• Create Windows GUI installer. #642 (@technoweenie)
• Binary releases use Go 1.5, which includes fix for Authorization when the request URL includes just the username. golang/go#11399

Misc

• Documented Git config values used by Git LFS in git-lfs-config(5).
• Experimental support for Git worktrees (in Git 2.5+) #546 (@sinbad)
• Experimental extension support. #486 (@ryansimmen)

NOTE: The Windows installer is currently only available for the Windows AMD64 build.

• Fix build script when run outside of a Git repository. #550 (@rubyist)

Check out the official v0.5.4 release for pre-built binaries and packages.

• Ensure git lfs uninit cleans your git config thoroughly. #530 (@technoweenie)
• Fix issue with asking git-credentials for auth details after getting them from the SSH command. #534 (@technoweenie)

NOTE: Mac versions have been updated with fixed install scripts.