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too slow, or its strict mirroring of everything to both places too
limiting, then git-annex could be a useful alternative.
* git-annex is also not a folder mirroring system like [syncthing](https://syncthing.net/)
(although [syncthing could be supported as a special remote](todo/syncthing_special_remote/))
or [gut](https://github.com/tillberg/gut), but it can be used to sync
files such a way, with certain limitations (for example, it doesn't
like syncing `.git` directories so much).
* git-annex is also not a distributed file system like Bittorrent or [ipfs](http://ipfs.io)
but both are supported as special remotes with more work in making
[[git-annex more distributed underway|todo/Bittorrent-like_features/]].
* git-annex is more than just a workaround for git scalability
limitations that might eventually be fixed by efforts like
[git-bigfiles](http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/git-bigfiles). In particular,