I use git-annex to manage huge files, mostly video and audio attached to other git repositories (such as presentations), but I also use git-annex to manage my music collection across multiple devices. I also use it to manage the ISO images I download, podcasts, and youtube videos.

See http://anarc.at/.

  1. My tips
  2. My todos
  3. My bugs
  4. Forum posts
  5. Git annex dev news

My tips

... or the ones I commented it, to be more precise.

Splitting a git-annex repository
Posted
hashdeep integration
Posted
finding which file matches a key
Posted
disabling a special remote
Posted
antipatterns
Posted
Repositories with large number of files
Posted
semi-synchronized remotes
Posted
playlist fetch
Posted
git-annex on NFS
Posted
shared git annex directory between multiple users
Posted
transmission integration
Posted
dumb metadata extraction from xbmc
Posted

My todos

... same.

expose fsck last run information
Posted
deleting a repository from history
Posted
copy instead of rename on reinject []
Posted
Bittorrent-like features
Posted
git-hook to sanity-check git-annex branch pushes
Posted
build a user guide
Posted
syncthing special remote
Posted
cleaner hack for man pages
Posted
wishlist: global progress status
Posted
shorten git-annex manpage
Posted
read-only removable drives
Posted
show readonly removable drives in the webapp
Posted
--notify-finish operates on a per-file, not per-process basis
Posted
document standard groups more extensively in the UI
Posted

Done

My bugs

... same.

leaves many stray processes on remote server
Posted
remotes disappeared
Posted
sync-git-annex branch not syncing in the assistant
Posted
assistant memory leak
Posted
Resource temporarily unavailable when running enableremote
Posted
s3 InternalIOException?
Posted
aria2c output very verbose (non-console mode) []
Posted
cannot add local readonly repo through the webapp
Posted
git-annex branch shows commit with looong commitlog []
Posted
webapp shows transfer from 'unknown' when no remote is configured for a system that is downloading files []
Posted

Fixed

Forum posts

Forums where I posted.

moving annex across filesystems
Posted
does git-annex parallelize different remotes?
Posted
failed to push anonymously
Posted
syncing music to my android device
Posted
usability: what are those arrow things?
Posted
usability: creating an archive on a new external drive
Posted
removing remote.log information completely
Posted
mesh configurations
Posted
s3 bandwidth limitations and next release
Posted
how do automated upgrades work?
Posted
how to edit the git-annex branch?
Posted
remote-specific meta-data
Posted
optimising lookupkey
Posted
original filename on s3
Posted
canceling wrong repository merge
Posted
scalability with lots of files
Posted
remembering state
Posted
unrelated repositories sync
Posted
how do i manually sync my external drive?
Posted
confused about external drives
Posted
luks encrypted disk support
Posted

Git annex dev news

I find the recent changes a little too noisy, but i want more than just the news, so i made up this little hybrid feed:

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