I am in Windows and therefore forced to use direct mode. After reading for a long while I still have not found a way of "git annex get" previous versions. Is this supported? is it only the last version in the repository?
any chance to use indirect mode in Windows? In theory Windows supports NTFS symlinks, why is this not supported?
git-annex for windows is targeting being used with msysgit, and msysgit does not seem to support symlinks. That's one good reason. Since cywin's git does support symlinks, it might be possible to get git-annex to use it and support indirect mode.
Doing anything about this is probably "patches accepted" territory for me. I'm mostly interested in porting git-annex to Windows so it can be used on computers owned by non-technical users, to interoperate with git-annex on more capable operating systems.