This is git-annex's todo list. Link items to done when done. A more complete roadmap is also available.

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remove legacy import directory interface
Posted Tue Nov 19 18:13:31 2019
git-annex-export --from option
Posted Sat Nov 16 05:53:01 2019
change git-annex-import not to delete original files by default
Posted Fri Nov 15 18:53:15 2019
documenting sqlite database schemas
Posted Sun Nov 10 23:27:56 2019
git-annex-sync handling of linked worktrees
Posted Sun Nov 3 23:06:38 2019
warn of breaking changes same way git does
Posted Thu Oct 24 22:05:44 2019
S3 special remote support for DigitalOcean Spaces
Posted Wed Oct 16 02:34:52 2019
operate on files affected by a commit range
Posted Tue Oct 8 05:13:22 2019
addunlocked config setting
Posted Mon Oct 7 18:08:42 2019
Describe a file in function of another file
Posted Wed Oct 2 21:20:35 2019
make " Try making some of these repositories available" more informative
Posted Fri Sep 27 20:37:38 2019 by yoh
only pass unlocked files through the clean/smudge filter
Posted Tue Sep 24 17:33:05 2019
option to block git from pushing references to not-yet-saved contents
Posted Thu Sep 19 21:03:29 2019
auto-lock files after one edit
Posted Thu Sep 19 19:57:03 2019
git-annex-init should configure git diff driver
Posted Thu Sep 19 17:43:40 2019
split off clean/smudge filter?
Posted Wed Sep 18 20:59:14 2019
assure correct names (and values) for special remotes parameters
Posted Wed Sep 18 17:09:09 2019 by yoh
symlinks for not-present unlocked files
Posted Mon Sep 16 17:23:29 2019
remote-ready-command
Posted Fri Sep 13 20:37:02 2019
reinit current repo to new uuid
Posted Tue Sep 10 21:14:53 2019
S3 export redirecting to key-value store
Posted Mon Sep 2 17:41:44 2019
option to avoid slow transfers
Posted Tue Aug 27 22:07:28 2019
stop using createDirectoryIfMissing True
Posted Fri Aug 23 20:52:33 2019
annex.addunlocked in gitattributes
Posted Fri Jul 19 18:49:48 2019
patch generation with annexed files
Posted Fri Jul 19 18:49:48 2019
more extensive retries to mask transient failures
Posted Mon Jul 8 16:30:35 2019
better error messages for local remote
Posted Fri Jul 5 13:58:51 2019
way to untrust without unncessary branch update
Posted Thu Jun 27 23:08:59 2019
speculate-can-get : extension of speculate-present
Posted Fri May 3 15:34:40 2019
key checksum from chunk checksums
Posted Wed Apr 24 17:40:12 2019
git-annex-migrate using git-replace
Posted Mon Apr 22 01:26:53 2019
import tree from rsync special remote
Posted Mon Apr 15 17:49:30 2019
git-annex-get --batch --key
Posted Thu Apr 11 23:41:15 2019
globus special remote as a "transport" layer
Posted Fri Apr 5 02:25:10 2019 by yoh
document git-annex dependencies
Posted Sun Mar 24 18:47:25 2019
annex.thin without hardlinks
Posted Fri Mar 22 13:23:42 2019
git-annex-test : skip tests if external utils have problems
Posted Tue Mar 19 18:55:57 2019
importing from special remote without downloading
Posted Tue Mar 12 17:18:25 2019
sqlite database improvements
Posted Mon Mar 11 18:31:11 2019
batch operations for remotes
Posted Wed Feb 13 16:52:07 2019
option for (fast) compression on special remotes like "directory"
Posted Wed Feb 13 11:21:09 2019
simpler, trusted export remotes
Posted Tue Feb 12 21:09:19 2019
universal batch mode
Posted Tue Feb 12 00:35:14 2019
publicurl config for all special remotes
Posted Fri Jan 25 03:08:38 2019 by yoh
some way to get a list of options for a special remote of a given type
Posted Fri Jan 25 02:58:50 2019 by yoh
external remote querying transition
Posted Fri Jan 18 15:55:37 2019
add import --to command
Posted Sun Jan 13 18:11:04 2019
MD5E keys without file size
Posted Tue Jan 8 20:12:37 2019
per-branch git-annex branch
Posted Wed Jan 2 21:12:11 2019
git repo tracking (not storage)
Posted Thu Dec 27 19:22:43 2018
add tests under concurrency
Posted Fri Dec 7 17:16:55 2018
encrypting URLs
Posted Tue Dec 4 18:57:02 2018
encrypt only the credentials
Posted Thu Nov 29 03:49:37 2018
add limit to matching options
Posted Tue Nov 27 17:24:18 2018
assistant should detect added remotes
Posted Tue Nov 20 22:29:20 2018
add xxHash backend
Posted Thu Nov 15 07:28:23 2018
keep git-annex branch checked out?
Posted Wed Nov 14 16:42:39 2018
more efficient resolution of trivial export conflicts
Posted Tue Nov 13 19:50:10 2018
alternate keys for same content
Posted Mon Oct 29 19:43:24 2018
addurl improvements
Posted Sun Oct 28 20:32:23 2018
unify adjust with view
Posted Fri Oct 26 17:56:59 2018
copy instead of rename on reinject
Posted Thu Oct 25 17:36:39 2018
git smudge clean interface suboptiomal
Posted Mon Oct 22 17:01:44 2018
external backends
Posted Mon Oct 22 15:45:01 2018
consider meow backend
Posted Mon Oct 22 01:56:20 2018
assistant support hide-missing
Posted Sat Oct 20 18:23:29 2018
better way to get missing files
Posted Sat Oct 20 18:23:29 2018
preserve file extensions in WORM and URL keys
Posted Fri Oct 19 20:28:09 2018
arm64 autobuilder
Posted Wed Oct 10 22:24:12 2018
dockerized external special remotes
Posted Thu Oct 4 01:23:52 2018
config setting to force --progress reporting for some git calls
Posted Fri Sep 28 16:14:55 2018 by yoh
shorter keys through better encoding
Posted Wed Sep 26 16:58:50 2018
option to add user-specified string to key
Posted Wed Sep 26 03:02:22 2018
Natively support s3:// urls (for addurl, get, etc)
Posted Wed Sep 19 13:17:39 2018 by yoh
symlinks to symlinks to the annex
Posted Fri Sep 7 17:01:02 2018
to and from multiple remotes
Posted Mon Aug 27 17:36:26 2018
limit to low cost remotes
Posted Tue Aug 21 01:26:31 2018
metadata --batch parses json strictly, loosen?
Posted Sun Jul 29 20:29:20 2018
network test suite
Posted Thu Jul 5 15:53:56 2018
borg special remote
Posted Fri May 25 20:13:29 2018
machine readable information about reason of failure in enableremote
Posted Tue May 22 17:26:10 2018 by yoh
support for storing xattrs
Posted Sun May 20 03:45:04 2018
improve memory usage of --all
Posted Tue May 8 17:55:35 2018
import tree
Posted Wed Mar 21 06:26:00 2018
p2p protocol flag days
Posted Mon Mar 12 21:33:48 2018
add sftp special remote
Posted Tue Mar 6 18:49:37 2018
learn about remotes that are currently unavailable
Posted Wed Feb 28 20:52:31 2018
lockdown hooks
Posted Thu Feb 1 17:52:27 2018
--get option for diffdriver
Posted Thu Jan 25 03:44:51 2018
support ssh:// or sftp:// urls via "built-in" ssh support
Posted Fri Jan 12 14:56:42 2018 by yoh
webapp export remote configuration interface
Posted Wed Sep 20 19:32:30 2017
export paired rename innefficenctcy
Posted Tue Sep 19 18:21:36 2017
git-annex-repair claims success then failure
Posted Fri Jul 28 03:39:54 2017
git annex repair: performance can be abysmal, huge improvements possible
Posted Fri Jul 21 13:59:09 2017
Invert remote selection
Posted Tue Jul 18 17:00:08 2017
tracking changes to metadata
Posted Wed Jun 14 21:26:37 2017
Bidirectional metadata
Posted Tue May 9 14:20:19 2017
Wishlist: Parity files on all files
Posted Tue Jan 24 17:15:30 2017
Alternative mode control for import
Posted Mon Jan 16 10:26:05 2017
reinit should work without arguments
Posted Tue Jan 10 22:52:17 2017
wishlist: assistant logging improvements
Posted Thu Dec 29 17:49:11 2016
tor
Posted Wed Dec 7 19:51:20 2016
Long Running Filter Process
Posted Sat Dec 3 09:04:43 2016
unlock --read-only
Posted Mon Oct 17 15:58:52 2016 by yoh
bittorrent: support offline operation and verification
Posted Fri Oct 7 10:23:25 2016
Workflow guide
Posted Thu Sep 15 09:28:53 2016
Allow globally limiting filename length
Posted Fri Sep 9 18:00:38 2016
transitive transfers
Posted Mon Sep 5 22:05:00 2016
Specify maximum usable space per remote
Posted Fri Sep 2 02:19:55 2016
calckey cannot be used outside of git repo
Posted Wed Aug 17 11:17:21 2016
annex merge --remotes
Posted Fri Aug 5 21:35:33 2016 by yoh
sync --branches to sync only specified branches (e.g. git-annex)
Posted Fri Aug 5 13:18:21 2016 by yoh
allow remotes to do their own, smarter diskreserve checking
Posted Mon Jul 18 04:20:00 2016
wishlist: optionally print key in output of checkpresentkey batch mode
Posted Thu Jul 7 13:31:43 2016
Store git pack files on special remotes
Posted Wed May 25 12:25:29 2016
upload large chunks without buffering in memory
Posted Wed Apr 27 21:15:24 2016
Set total storage limit for special remotes
Posted Sat Apr 9 16:31:45 2016
Slow transfer for a lot of small files
Posted Sat Apr 9 16:31:45 2016
wishlist: 'get' queue and schedule
Posted Sat Apr 9 16:31:45 2016
cleaner hack for man pages
Posted Sat Apr 9 14:42:29 2016
immediate stream-to-sync
Posted Sun Mar 13 16:01:01 2016
Android: add a "Share via" shortcut "Add to Annex"
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
Wishlist: additional environment variables for hooks
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
Wishlist: disable auto-repair for the assistant
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
Wishlist: sanitychecker fix wrong UUID/duplicate remote
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
importfeed: allow ${itemdate} with --template
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
webapp: show times of events
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: 'whereis' support in the webapp
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: `git annex drop --relaxed`
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: `git annex optimize`
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: --dry-run option for all commands
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: --maxdepth option for git annex find
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: Add --byte-limit option
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: Freeing X space on remote Y
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: Option to specify max transfer rate
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: Parity files for encrypted remotes
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: Restore s3 files moved to Glacier
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: allow custom S3 url in webapp
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: an "assistant" for web-browsing -- tracking the sources of the downloads
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: annex.largefiles configuration in webapp and sync
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: archive from remote with the least free space
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: derived content support
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: disable automatic commits
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: display status of remotes in the webapp
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: encrypted git remote on hosting site from webapp
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: generic annex.cost-command
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: global progress status
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: history of operations
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: matching options for branches
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: more info in the standard commit message of `sync`
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: move pending transfers for a host to the end of the queue when one fails
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: option to print more info with 'unused'
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: perform fsck remotely
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: print locations for files in rsync remote
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: provide a config option for using new hashing scheme in non-bare remotes
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: recursive directory remote setup/addurl
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: traffic accounting for git-annex
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist: unify directory scheme for the store
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
wishlist[minor]: add time stamps to annex log popups in webapp
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
add ancient armel build
Posted Wed Mar 9 17:46:59 2016
make annex info more efficient
Posted Mon Feb 15 15:26:33 2016 by yoh
Lower-case extension for SHA256E and similar
Posted Mon Jan 18 13:07:21 2016
Package for Lacie NasOS?
Posted Sun Jan 17 17:14:29 2016
When autostarting the assistant on boot delay the execution 2min
Posted Wed Oct 28 11:06:28 2015
show me where unused file was, i can wait
Posted Tue Oct 20 04:44:39 2015
deferred update mode
Posted Tue Sep 22 19:32:51 2015
use git-mktree rather than index file
Posted Thu Sep 3 20:52:58 2015
allow disk space quota independent of free disk space
Posted Thu Aug 13 20:44:24 2015
ditch yesod
Posted Wed Aug 5 13:45:51 2015
Metadata changes are not reflected in a view
Posted Mon Jul 20 17:49:31 2015
git-hook to sanity-check git-annex branch pushes
Posted Tue Jun 2 16:36:59 2015
syncthing special remote
Posted Sun May 31 19:56:04 2015
Metadata on regular git objects (blob, trees)?
Posted Sun May 31 14:30:37 2015
shorten git-annex manpage
Posted Fri May 29 16:27:11 2015
enable a discussion forum or support system
Posted Sat May 16 21:45:35 2015
make glacier-cli executable path configurable
Posted Fri Apr 24 15:33:22 2015
addurl –force-torrent option
Posted Mon Apr 13 14:27:21 2015
Display fingerprint to WebApps GPG "create encrypted new repo"
Posted Fri Feb 13 23:39:16 2015
[FR] No consistency check while on battery-only
Posted Wed Feb 4 20:10:42 2015
Configuring metadata view filenames
Posted Wed Feb 4 20:10:42 2015
S3 multipart interruption cleanup
Posted Wed Dec 3 19:11:02 2014
does not preserve timestamps
Posted Wed Oct 22 17:58:16 2014
show readonly removable drives in the webapp
Posted Mon Oct 20 19:33:39 2014
webapp nudge when less than numcopies clones
Posted Thu Sep 25 16:07:07 2014
Speed up 'import --clean-duplicates'
Posted Tue Jul 29 15:38:40 2014
utilising the mklink command on windows to utilise symlinks and therefore indirect mode on windows
Posted Mon Jul 21 02:42:29 2014
Faster «git annex status» when «git annex watch» is running
Posted Tue Jul 8 13:16:10 2014
assistant should set up non-bare repos on removable drives, and update them when syncing with them
Posted Sat May 24 20:31:15 2014
remember ssh remote including optionally ssh key
Posted Wed May 21 19:54:11 2014
webapp ssh setup should work with locked down git-annex-shell account
Posted Thu May 15 19:46:18 2014
read-only removable drives
Posted Wed Apr 30 18:19:52 2014
sharedRepository mode not supported by git-annex
Posted Sun Apr 20 19:47:55 2014
--notify-finish operates on a per-file, not per-process basis
Posted Sat Apr 19 22:57:00 2014
build a user guide
Posted Sat Apr 19 13:26:36 2014
document standard groups more extensively in the UI
Posted Sat Apr 19 12:30:47 2014
LIst of Available Remotes in Webapp
Posted Thu Apr 10 09:23:23 2014
Pause all transfers in all annexes watched by the assistant
Posted Thu Apr 3 00:06:27 2014
using file metadata for preferred (wanted) content
Posted Wed Apr 2 15:58:22 2014
assistant parallel file transfers
Posted Mon Mar 17 18:06:35 2014
openwrt package
Posted Mon Mar 17 18:06:35 2014
add a --branch to applicable git-annex commands
Posted Sat Mar 15 17:58:25 2014
actively verify required content during drop
Posted Tue Mar 4 21:45:11 2014
ctrl c handling
Posted Fri Feb 21 21:28:17 2014
Show repo type in repo list
Posted Sat Nov 2 23:05:33 2013
wishlist degraded files
Posted Sat Nov 2 20:48:37 2013
keep annexed files for a while
Posted Tue Aug 13 16:02:24 2013
sync my local git-annex from a dump remote
Posted Tue Aug 13 15:58:00 2013
Bittorrent-like features
Posted Sat Jul 20 22:38:19 2013
free space checking for local special remotes
Posted Wed Jul 10 23:50:05 2013
Use MediaScannerConnection on Android
Posted Tue Jul 2 13:57:15 2013
Move ssh config to ~/ssh/git-annex/config
Posted Wed Jun 12 19:25:55 2013
webapp does not accept ssh alias for ssh remote
Posted Tue Mar 19 00:07:59 2013
Use a remote as a sharing site for files with obfuscated URLs
Posted Sat Feb 9 11:15:39 2013
windows support
Posted Fri Jan 13 18:40:36 2012
tahoe lfs for reals
Posted Tue May 17 16:14:46 2011
cache key info
Posted Tue May 17 07:10:13 2011
hidden files
Posted Tue Feb 22 18:44:17 2011
union mounting
Posted Wed Oct 27 23:27:01 2010
parallel possibilities
Posted Mon Oct 25 18:10:38 2010