git-annex: manage files with git, without checking their contents into git

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git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, time, or disk space.

It can store large files in many places, from local hard drives, to a large number of cloud storage services, including S3, WebDAV, and rsync, and many other usable via plugins. Files can be stored encrypted with gpg, so that the cloud storage provider cannot see your data. git-annex keeps track of where each file is stored, so it knows how many copies are available, and has many facilities to ensure your data is preserved.

git-annex can also be used to keep a folder in sync between computers, noticing when files are changed, and automatically committing them to git and transferring them to other computers. The git-annex webapp makes it easy to set up and use git-annex this way.


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Flags

Manual Flags

NameDescriptionDefault
parallelbuild

Enable production build (slower build; faster binary)

Disabled
Automatic Flags
NameDescriptionDefault
assistant

Enable git-annex assistant, webapp, and watch command

Enabled
pairing

Enable pairing

Enabled
production

Enable production build (slower build; faster binary)

Enabled
torrentparser

Use haskell torrent library to parse torrent files

Enabled
magicmime

Use libmagic to determine file MIME types

Enabled
crypton

Use the crypton library rather than the no longer maintained cryptonite

Enabled
benchmark

Enable benchmarking

Enabled
debuglocks

Debug location of MVar/STM deadlocks

Disabled
dbus

Enable dbus support

Enabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Change log CHANGELOG
Dependencies aeson, ansi-terminal (>=0.9), async, attoparsec (>=0.13.2.2), aws (>=0.20), base (>=4.11.1.0 && <5.0), blaze-builder, bloomfilter (>=2.0.0), byteable, bytestring, case-insensitive, clientsession, concurrent-output (>=1.10), conduit, containers (>=0.5.8), criterion, crypto-api, crypton, cryptonite (>=0.23), data-default, DAV (>=1.0), dbus (>=0.10.7), deepseq, directory (>=1.2.7.0), disk-free-space, dlist, edit-distance, exceptions (>=0.6), fdo-notify (>=0.3), feed (>=1.0.0), filepath, filepath-bytestring (>=1.4.2.1.1), free, git-lfs (>=1.2.0), hfsevents, hinotify (>=0.3.10), http-client (>=0.5.3), http-client-restricted (>=0.0.2), http-client-tls, http-conduit (>=2.3.0), http-types (>=0.7), IfElse, magic, memory, microlens, monad-control, monad-logger (>=0.3.10), mountpoints, mtl (>=2), network (>=3.0.0.0), network-bsd, network-info, network-multicast, network-uri (>=2.6), old-locale, optparse-applicative (>=0.14.2), path-pieces (>=0.2.1), persistent (>=2.8.1), persistent-sqlite (>=2.8.1), persistent-template, process (>=1.6.3), QuickCheck (>=2.10.0), random, regex-tdfa, resourcet, SafeSemaphore, sandi, securemem, setenv, shakespeare (>=2.0.11), silently (>=1.2.5.1), socks, split, stm (>=2.3), stm-chans, tagsoup, tasty (>=1.2), tasty-hunit, tasty-quickcheck, tasty-rerun, template-haskell, text, time (>=1.5.0), torrent (>=10000.0.0), transformers, unix (>=2.7.2), unix-compat (>=0.5 && <0.8), unliftio-core, unordered-containers, utf8-string, uuid (>=1.2.6), vector, wai, wai-extra, warp (>=3.2.8), warp-tls (>=3.2.2), Win32 (>=2.6.1.0 && <2.12.0.0 || >=2.13.4.0), Win32-notify, yesod (>=1.4.3), yesod-core (>=1.6.0), yesod-form (>=1.4.8), yesod-static (>=1.5.1) [details]
License AGPL-3.0-only
Copyright 2010-2024 Joey Hess
Author Joey Hess
Maintainer Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Category Utility
Home page http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Source repo head: git clone git://git-annex.branchable.com/
Uploaded by JoeyHess at 2024-02-27T17:02:42Z
Distributions Arch:10.20240129, Debian:8.20211123, Fedora:10.20230626, FreeBSD:5.20150727, NixOS:10.20231129, openSUSE:10.20230926
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables git-annex
Downloads 256468 total (692 in the last 30 days)
Rating 2.0 (votes: 1) [estimated by Bayesian average]
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Readme for git-annex-10.20240227

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git-annex allows managing large files with git, without storing the file
contents in git. It can sync, backup, and archive your data, offline
and online. Checksums and encryption keep your data safe and secure. Bring
the power and distributed nature of git to bear on your large files with
git-annex.

For documentation, see doc/ or <https://git-annex.branchable.com/>