git-annex

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git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the filecontents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful whendealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether dueto limitations in memory, time, or disk space.

git-annex is designed for git users who love the command line.For everyone else, the git-annex assistant turnsgit-annex into an easy to use folder synchroniser.

To get a feel for git-annex, see the walkthrough.

key conceptsgit-annex man pagehow it worksspecial remotesworkflowssyncthe detailsencryptionkey-value backendsbare repositoriessubmodulesinternalsscalabilitydesignother stufftestimonialsprivacywhat git annex is notrelated softwarepublic git-annex reposthankssitemapuse case: The Archivist

Bob has many drives to archive his data, most of themkept offline, in a safe place.

With git-annex, Bob has a single directory tree that includes allhis files, even if their content is being stored offline. He canreorganize his files using that tree, committing new versions to git,without worry about accidentally deleting anything.

When Bob needs access to some files, git-annex can tell him which drive(s)they're on, and easily make them available. Indeed, every drive knows whatis on every other drive.
more about location tracking

Bob thinks long-term, and so he appreciates that git-annex uses a simplerepository format. He knows his files will be accessible in the futureeven if the world has forgotten about git-annex and git.
more about future-proofing

Run in a cron job, git-annex adds new files to archival drives at night. Italso helps Bob keep track of intentional and unintentional copies offiles, and logs information he can use to decide when it's time to duplicatethe content of old drives.
more about backup copies

use case: The Nomad

Alice is always on the move, often with her trusty netbook and a smallhandheld terabyte USB drive, or a smaller USB keydrive. She has a serverout there on the net. She stores data, encrypted in the Cloud.

All these things can have different files on them, but Alice no longerhas to deal with the tedious process of keeping them manually in sync,or remembering where she put a file. git-annex manages all these datasources as if they were git remotes.
more about special remotes

When she has 1 bar on her cell, Alice queues up interesting files on herserver for later. At a coffee shop, she has git-annex download them to herUSB drive. High in the sky or in a remote cabin, she catches up onpodcasts, videos, and games, first letting git-annex copy them fromher USB drive to the netbook (this saves battery power).
more about transferring data

When she's done, she tells git-annex which to keep and which to remove.They're all removed from her netbook to save space, and Alice knowsthat next time she syncs up to the net, her changes will be synced backto her server.
more about distributed version control

If that describes you, or if you're some from column A and some from columnB, then git-annex may be the tool you've been looking for to expand fromkeeping all your small important files in git, to managing your largefiles with git.

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