Git annex. Brilliant. Powerful. git-annex.branchable.com
— Gert van Dijk (@gertvdijk) April 1, 2012
git-annex is like dropbox without the chrome. git-annex.branchable.com
— Wil Chung (@iamwil) March 31, 2012
blender 2.62 + ffmpeg + dnxhd + git-annex = who needs final cut?
— cdotwright (@cdotwright) April 4, 2012
I want #git-annex whereis for all the stuff (not) in my room.
— topr (@derwelle) February 22, 2012
Git-annex now auto-syncing photos from my android phone to a Tor hidden SSH service I control (via @guardianproject's Orbot) #prismbreak
— Richard King (@graphiclunarkid) June 20, 2013
What excites me about GIT ANNEX is how it fundamentally tracks the backup and availability of any data you own, and allows you to share data with a large or small audience, ensuring that the data survives.
-- Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3625
Seen on IRC:
oh my god, git-annex is amazing this is the revolution in fucking with gigantic piles of files that I've been waiting for
And then my own story: I have a ton of drives. I have a lot of servers. I live in a cabin on dialup and often have 1 hour on broadband in a week to get everything I need. Without git-annex, managing all this would not be possible. It works perfectly for me, not a surprise since I wrote it, but still, it's a different level of "perfect" than anything I could put together before. --Joey
See also: day 288 success stories