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.

antipatterns
Posted Tue Jan 17 19:22:48 2017
hashdeep integration
Posted Mon Jun 18 12:45:31 2018
Splitting a git-annex repository
Posted Mon Apr 24 13:29:23 2017
migrating two seperate disconnected directories to git annex
Posted Tue Sep 10 18:11:46 2013
Repositories with large number of files
Posted Wed Jun 17 08:28:13 2015
semi-synchronized remotes
Posted Mon Mar 27 16:23:13 2017
playlist fetch
Posted Thu Mar 31 14:52:42 2016
git-annex on NFS
Posted Fri Jul 17 22:14:23 2015
disabling a special remote
Posted Sun May 31 16:26:23 2015
shared git annex directory between multiple users
Posted Tue Sep 10 23:13:59 2013
transmission integration
Posted Mon Jan 5 20:12:56 2015
dumb metadata extraction from xbmc
Posted Sun Aug 10 23:32:46 2014

My todos

... same.

LFS API support
Posted Fri Nov 30 21:30:21 2018
copy instead of rename on reinject
Posted Thu Oct 25 17:36:39 2018
consider meow backend
Posted Mon Oct 22 01:56:20 2018
Bittorrent-like features
Posted Sat Jul 20 22:38:19 2013
git-hook to sanity-check git-annex branch pushes
Posted Tue Jun 2 16:36:59 2015
build a user guide
Posted Sat Apr 19 13:26:36 2014
reinit should work without arguments
Posted Tue Jan 10 22:52:17 2017
syncthing special remote
Posted Sun May 31 19:56:04 2015
transitive transfers
Posted Mon Sep 5 22:05:00 2016
cleaner hack for man pages
Posted Sat Apr 9 14:42:29 2016
wishlist: global progress status
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
show me where unused file was, i can wait
Posted Tue Oct 20 04:44:39 2015
shorten git-annex manpage
Posted Fri May 29 16:27:11 2015
read-only removable drives
Posted Wed Apr 30 18:19:52 2014
show readonly removable drives in the webapp
Posted Mon Oct 20 19:33:39 2014
--notify-finish operates on a per-file, not per-process basis
Posted Sat Apr 19 22:57:00 2014
document standard groups more extensively in the UI
Posted Sat Apr 19 12:30:47 2014

Done

unused file tracking recommendation changed since v7
Posted Fri Dec 14 15:15:27 2018
clarify that v7 applies to all clones
Posted Tue Dec 4 20:41:06 2018
append-only mode
Posted Thu May 17 18:14:16 2018
do not block on crypto key generation
Posted Thu May 17 17:38:40 2018
dumb, unsafe, human-readable backend
Posted Mon Feb 1 19:53:03 2016
hide missing files
Posted Mon Feb 1 19:51:42 2016
Amazon Cloud Drive
Posted Thu Aug 6 19:03:15 2015
easy way to reproduce normal download command
Posted Thu Jun 18 17:33:14 2015
S3 fsck support
Posted Tue Jun 16 00:50:05 2015
git annex open
Posted Mon Nov 10 11:42:37 2014

My bugs

... same.

leaves many stray processes on remote server
Posted Wed Feb 6 19:04:08 2019
remotes disappeared
Posted Wed Mar 30 18:02:23 2016
direct command leaves repository inconsistent if interrupted
Posted Mon Jul 28 22:40:42 2014
sync-git-annex branch not syncing in the assistant
Posted Wed Aug 19 23:56:07 2015
assistant memory leak
Posted Wed Jun 24 14:44:48 2015
Resource temporarily unavailable when running enableremote
Posted Wed Jun 17 19:22:32 2015
s3 InternalIOException?
Posted Mon Jun 15 18:46:04 2015
aria2c output very verbose (non-console mode) []
Posted Tue Feb 10 03:21:33 2015
cannot add local readonly repo through the webapp
Posted Mon Oct 20 19:59:53 2014
git-annex branch shows commit with looong commitlog []
Posted Sat Apr 19 13:34:37 2014
webapp shows transfer from 'unknown' when no remote is configured for a system that is downloading files []
Posted Wed Nov 6 14:48:27 2013

Fixed

webdav remote fails on pound signs
Posted Sun Jan 6 19:35:13 2019
why are all those files modified
Posted Tue Dec 4 21:11:28 2018
v7 fails to fetch files on FAT filesystem
Posted Tue Dec 4 01:50:28 2018
interoperability issue between buster and stretch
Posted Sat Nov 3 19:30:26 2018
cannot talk with nextcloud server
Posted Sun Oct 7 18:00:32 2018
gcrypt repository not found
Posted Thu May 17 17:27:24 2018

Forum posts

Forums where I posted.

moving annex across filesystems
Posted Thu Feb 7 21:34:36 2019
does git-annex parallelize different remotes?
Posted Wed Feb 6 19:43:33 2019
failed to push anonymously
Posted Mon Jun 18 12:48:14 2018
syncing music to my android device
Posted Wed Mar 30 03:20:58 2016
usability: creating an archive on a new external drive
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
usability: what are those arrow things?
Posted Sat Mar 12 16:58:09 2016
removing remote.log information completely
Posted Tue Aug 25 20:02:59 2015
mesh configurations
Posted Tue Aug 18 18:46:10 2015
s3 bandwidth limitations and next release
Posted Thu Jun 11 17:16:52 2015
how do automated upgrades work?
Posted Wed May 27 23:28:10 2015
how to edit the git-annex branch?
Posted Tue Mar 31 04:27:04 2015
remote-specific meta-data
Posted Fri Mar 20 18:57:35 2015
optimising lookupkey
Posted Fri Feb 13 15:33:53 2015
original filename on s3
Posted Thu Feb 12 16:40:20 2015
canceling wrong repository merge
Posted Wed Feb 11 14:48:40 2015
scalability with lots of files
Posted Wed Jan 21 00:52:46 2015
remembering state
Posted Wed May 14 02:09:02 2014
unrelated repositories sync
Posted Tue Apr 1 04:02:32 2014
how do i manually sync my external drive?
Posted Wed Jan 1 18:59:44 2014
confused about external drives
Posted Sun Dec 29 03:16:51 2013
luks encrypted disk support
Posted Sun Dec 29 02:08:39 2013

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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