@Alexander that DAV-0.4 problem is a bug in DAV, not git-annex. I've informed its author and it should be fixed soon, in a new version of DAV.

possibly related to this Debian issue:

trying to install git-annex with cabal on OS X 10.8.3, the build fails with

Loading package DAV-0.4 ... linking ... ghc: 
lookupSymbol failed in relocateSection (relocate external)
~/.cabal/lib/DAV-0.4/ghc-7.4.2/HSDAV-0.4.o: unknown symbol `_DAVzm0zi4_PathszuDAV_version1_closure'
ghc: unable to load package `DAV-0.4'
Failed to install git-annex-4.20130417
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
git-annex-4.20130417 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1

This was after following all of the instructions for the Homebrew install at http://git-annex.branchable.com/install/OSX/ I was able to work around this issue by installing with the WebDAV flag disabled (ie, added the option --flags="-WebDAV" to last command in the OS X install instructions):

cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin --flags="-WebDAV"

Would it be possible to add optional support for transferring files over XMPP (possibly being disabled out-of-the-box so as not to suck up third-party bandwidth)?

You can use git annex rmurl $file $url, which I just added to git-annex.

(Also, git annex drop $file --from web will remove all the urls..)

@Richard, including all of /sdcard seems a reasonable thing to do if you want to back it all up. I don't know how likely anyone would be to want to sync the whole contents though.

@Leonardo direct mode is the default for all respositories created by the webapp, as well as all repositories on crippled filesystems that cannot support indirect mode. Android webapp thus defaults to direct mode twice over!

I think direct mode should be the default on Android

You can turn off automatic commits in the webapp by pausing syncing for the local repository.

Hi,

my company would need this for some project.

But to adopt it I would need: * windows support (I don't care if now symlink support for now) * being able to define which files are automatically synced using a syntax similar to the gitignore one * being able to disable auto-commit (just synching, user should be able to commit on their own)

thanks

While my main use case is a photo repo, I don't think it's wise to default to there.

Similarly, spamming what amounts to the root dir of "external" storage with repos seems like a bad idea.

sounds like a prime candidate for a nice lightweight linux distro ;)