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it keeps synchronised, so its contents are the same everywhere.
It's very easy to use, and has all the power of git and git-annex.
Note that the git-annex assistant is still beta quality code. See
[[the_errata]] for known infelicities.
## installation
The git-annex assistant comes as part of git-annex.
See [[install]] to get it installed.
Note that the git-annex assistant is still beta quality code.
(And it's not yet in the released version of git-annex.
That will change soon!)
The git-annex assistant comes as part of git-annex, starting with version
3.20120924. See [[install]] to get it installed.
## quick start
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[[!img assistant/menu.png]]
[[!img assistant/osx-app.png]]
It'll prompt you to set up the folder:
It'll prompt you to set up a folder:
[[!img assistant/makerepo.png]]
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* Want to make two nearby computers share the same synchronised folder?
Follow the [[pairing_walkthrough]].
## command line start
## command line startup
The git-annex assistant will automatically be started when you log in to
desktop environments like Gnome, XFCE, and KDE, and the menu item
desktop environments like Mac OS X, Gnome, XFCE, and KDE, and the menu item
shown above can be used to open the webapp. On other systems, you may need
to start it by hand.

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## version 3.20120924
This is the first beta release of the git-annex assistant.
In general, anything you can configure with the assistant's web app
will work. Some examples of use cases supported by this release include:
* [[Pairing|pairing_walkthrough]] two computers that are on the same local
network (or VPN) and automatically keeping the files in the annex in
sync as changes are made to them.
* Cloning your repository to removable drives, USB keys, etc. The assistant
will notice when the drive is mounted and keep it in sync.
Such a drive can be stored as an offline backup, or transported between
computers to keep them in sync.
* Cloning your repository to a remote server, running ssh, and uploading
changes made to your files to the server. There is special support
for using the rsync.net cloud provider this way, or any shell account
on a typical unix server, such as a Linode VPS can be used.
The following are known limitations of this release of the git-annex
assistant:
* On Mac OSX and BSD operating systems, the assistant uses kqueue to watch
files. Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many
directories will run it out of the max number of open files (typically
1024), and fail. See [[bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]]
for a workaround.
* In order to ensure that all multiple repositories are kept in sync,
each computer with a repository must be running the git-annex assistant.
* The assistant does not yet always manage to keep repositories in sync
when some are hidden from others behind firewalls.
* If a file is checked into git as a normal file and gets modified
(or merged, etc), it will be converted into an annexed file. So you
should not mix use of the assistant with normal git files in the same
repository yet.
* If you `git annex unlock` a file, it will immediately be re-locked.
See [[bugs/watcher_commits_unlocked_files]].