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Termux:Boot integration

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Assistant: Integrate with Termux:Boot, so when it's installed, the
assistant is autostarted on boot.

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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ git-annex is not currently part of the Termux distribution, but it's easy
to install it. Paste these commands into Termux:
pkg install git wget tar
termux-setup-storage
cd
wget https://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/autobuild/armel/git-annex-standalone-armel.tar.gz
tar zxf git-annex-standalone-armel.tar.gz
@ -12,26 +13,32 @@ to install it. Paste these commands into Termux:
git-annex.linux/runshell
Now you can set up a git-annex repository or two, to manage your
Android files. Here we'll make one for camera photos.
Android files. To avoid typing any more, you can start up the
git-annex webapp and set things up in there:
git annex webapp
Or you can continue using git-annex at the command line. Here we'll make a
repository for photos:
termux-setup-storage
cd ~/storage/dcim
git init
git annex init
You can run the git-annex assistant in your repository, to automatically
notice new and changed files and commit them to the repository:
cd ~/storage/dcim
git annex assistant
You can set up a ssh remote pointing to a server, and the assistant will
automatically sync things up.
You can go on to set up a ssh remote pointing to a server, and sync
your files to and from it.
And so on. Most ways you would use git-annex on a Linux system work fairly
well in this Termux environment.
Known limitations:
## Starting on boot
If you install the Termux:Boot app, git-annex will also integrate with it.
Repositories you create with the webapp (or list in
~/.config/git-annex/autostart) will have the assistant started in them on
boot, so you don't need to start it manually.
## Known limitations
* Direct mode
@ -39,9 +46,3 @@ Known limitations:
limitations of Android's /sdcard. You can get around this using v6
unlocked repositories, or by putting the git-annex repository on a better
filesystem on the Android device, such as your termux home directory.
* Webapp
The webapp doesn't know how to open a web browser on Android. It displays
a `file://` url, and if you copy and paste that into a web browser, it
will work.