# [ANNOUNCE] Git LFS v0.5.0 - Large File Storage

1 messages from 2015-04-08 to 2015-04-08. Participants: Rick Olson.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/39039

## Rick Olson, 2015-04-08 22:44

Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git LFS v0.5.0 - Large File Storage
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Hi,

Today we're releasing Git Large File Storage (LFS), an open source extension
that replaces large files with text pointers, while pushing the contents to
a Git LFS server.

    https://git-lfs.github.com

It's similar to Git Media, with a few notable exceptions:

* It talks to a Git LFS API.  No need to configure different backends
on the client.
* HTTPS and SSH authentication is supported.
* It's distributed as a static binary for Linux, Mac, and Windows, no
compilation or runtime needed.  The full source is provided with an
MIT license, so you can also build it yourself with Go.

 - Homepage: https://git-lfs.github.com
 - Download: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/releases/tag/v0.5.0
 - Git URL: https://github.com/github/git-lfs
 - API Spec: https://github.com/github/git-lfs/blob/master/docs/api.md
 - Reference Server: https://github.com/github/lfs-test-server
 - Git Media: https://github.com/alebedev/git-media

-- 
Rick Olson

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