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To get old behavior, add a .gitattributes containing: * annex.backend=WORM I feel that SHA256 is a better default for most people, as long as their systems are fast enough that checksumming their files isn't a problem. git-annex should default to preserving the integrity of data as well as git does. Checksum backends also work better with editing files via unlock/lock. I considered just using SHA1, but since that hash is believed to be somewhat near to being broken, and git-annex deals with large files which would be a perfect exploit medium, I decided to go to a SHA-2 hash. SHA512 is annoyingly long when displayed, and git-annex displays it in a few places (and notably it is shown in ls -l), so I picked the shorter hash. Considered SHA224 as it's even shorter, but feel it's a bit weird. I expect git-annex will use SHA-3 at some point in the future, but probably not soon! Note that systems without a sha256sum (or sha256) program will fall back to defaulting to SHA1.
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# cd ~/annex
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# cp /tmp/big_file .
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# cp /tmp/debian.iso .
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# git annex add .
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add big_file (checksum...) ok
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add debian.iso (checksum...) ok
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# git commit -a -m added
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When you add a file to the annex and commit it, only a symlink to
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the annexed content is committed. The content itself is stored in
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git-annex's backend.
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