git-annex v6 released

[Posted January 20, 2016 by n8willis]

Version 6 of git-annex has been released. The announcement highlights the addition of one major new feature, "support for unlocked large files that can be edited as usual and committed using regular git commands." The feature makes use of Git's smudge and clean filters, and is said to result in 50% less disk usage compared to the git-lfs extension.