[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 6""" date="2017-03-20T21:16:30Z" content=""" @joern.mankiewicz, you need to file a bug report with enough information to reproduce your problem. annex.largefiles in .gitattributes works fine: joey@darkstar:~/tmp> git init ttt Initialized empty Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/ttt/.git/ joey@darkstar:~/tmp> cd ttt joey@darkstar:~/tmp/ttt> git annex init init ok (recording state in git...) joey@darkstar:~/tmp/ttt> echo '* annex.largefiles=nothing' > .gitattributes joey@darkstar:~/tmp/ttt> touch foo joey@darkstar:~/tmp/ttt> git annex add foo add foo (non-large file; adding content to git repository) ok (recording state in git...) """]]