Hi!
I just discovered git-annex as a great way to move away from Dropbox, but there are some open questions I couldn't find answers for and hope someone will be able to answer them here:
I didn't completely understand how remotes are treated. As far as I understand there are two different parts to sync, the metadata (which is stored in a regular git repository) and the regular file data (or only chunks of it?). When syncing, I can choose whether I want to only sync the git (-metadata) part, or if I want to include the file contents, right?
- Is it possible to sync only a part of the file contents to certain remotes? For example I would want all my ebooks and photos to be synced to my remote server, but wouldn't want my private accounting and tax stuff to sync over the internet.
- I have several (regular) git repositories used for e.g. development. Can I store a regular (bare) git repository within a git-annex repository? Does this make sense, or should I (for whatever reason) avoid it?
- A great feature of the Dropbox app is the automatic upload of photos taken with my iPhone. I would like to adopt this kind of backup. So considering a remotely accessible server. Is there some way to make use of special remotes like WebDAV to allow uploads over a non-git interface?
- Is there a way to access files (read-only) over a non-git interface from some git-annex remote? So could I access e.g. some pdf document from a git-annex repository, when there is a WebDAV special remote? Or do I just misunderstand the concept of special remotes? Is there another (useful) way? Maybe some kind of (remotely accessible) web interface?
- Why is git-annex not a backup system?
Thank you in advance!
git pushandgit pull, why would you want to put your git repos into another synchronisation system? (You can certainly tar up your git repos and put them in your annex as a backup.)