This release adds support for DragonFly BSD, adds a new git lfs dedup command to save space if the file system supports it, adds support for file URLs, improves the performance when walking the repository, contains improvements to use HTTP/2 when available and cookies when required, and numerous other bug fixes, features, and modifications.

We would like to extend a special thanks to the following open-source contributors:

• @pluehne for adding support for fetching the history of specific refs
• @kupson for adding cookie support
• @liweitianux for adding Dragonfly BSD support
• @kazuki-ma for implementing de-duplication support
• @dvdveer for adding range support to ls-files
• @dyrone, @pmeerw, @yamiacat, and @kittenking for cleaning up some documentation issues
• @slonopotamus for improving concurrent downloads
• @nataliechen1 for fixing remote names with dots
• @jw3 for removing excessive logging
• @SeamusConnor for significantly improving performance when walking the repository

Features

• Support fetching entire history of specific refs #3849 (@pluehne)
• Add support for CentOS 8 #3854 (@bk2204)
• Let git-lfs HTTPS transport send cookies #3825 (@kupson)
• Support DragonFly BSD #3837 (@liweitianux)
• HTTP/2 protocol support #3793 (@PastelMobileSuit)
• Add clonefile on Windows over ReFS support. #3790 (@kazuki-ma)
• Add new command git lfs dedup for file system level de-duplication. #3753 (@kazuki-ma)
• Support GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES #3765 (@bk2204)
• ls-files: add support for reference range #3764 (@dvdveer)
• Add several additional distros for packagecloud.io #3751 (@bk2204)
• Provide an option to track to handle paths literally #3756 (@bk2204)
• Optimize traversal of Git objects with URL remotes #3755 (@bk2204)
• Support for file URLs #3748 (@bk2204)
• Add clone file on MacOS X (darwin). #3745 (@kazuki-ma)

Bugs

• Fix JSON comma problems in docs #3851 (@dyrone)
• Remove redundant comma in batch.md #3841 (@dyrone)
• More robust handling of parallel attempts to download the same file #3826 (@slonopotamus)
• Update wildmatch to v1.0.4 #3820 (@bk2204)
• Update to gitobj v1.4.1 #3815 (@bk2204)
• Fix build error when cross-compiling #3817 (@bk2204)
• Do not fail when multiple processes download the same lfs file #3813 (@slonopotamus)
• Fix Remote Name Parsing Bug #3812 (@nataliechen1)
• status: gracefully handle files replaced by directories #3768 (@bk2204)
• Avoid deadlock when transfer queue fails #3800 (@bk2204)
• Avoid a hang when Git is slow to provide us data #3806 (@bk2204)
• tasklog/log.go: print "done" messages with a trailing period #3789 (@ttaylorr)
• track: make --filename work with spaces #3785 (@bk2204)
• Fix couple of 'the the' typos #3786 (@pmeerw)
• Use an absolute path for smudging #3780 (@bk2204)
• Fix URL parsing with Go 1.12.8 #3771 (@bk2204)
• Fix remote autoselection when not on a branch #3759 (@bk2204)
• Replace deprecated SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR usage. #3739 (@kazuki-ma)
• Do not log skipped checkouts to file #3736 (@jw3)
• Fix typos across git-lfs repository #3728 (@kittenking)
• Accept legacy Git SSH URLs #3713 (@bk2204)

Misc

• ls-files --all man patch #3859 (@yamiacat)
• Reworked to use git ls-files in some circumstances instead of FastWalkGitRepo #3823 (@SeamusConnor)
• Clean up go.mod for Go 1.13 #3807 (@bk2204)
• Use FICLONE instead of BTRFS_IOC_CLONE. #3796 (@kazuki-ma)
• Remove unused pty code #3737 (@bk2204)

Packages

Up to date packages are available on PackageCloud and Homebrew.

RPM RHEL 6/CentOS 6 RPM RHEL 7/CentOS 7 RPM RHEL 8/CentOS 8 Debian 8 Debian 9 Debian 10

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