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The git-annex Windows port is not ready for prime time. But it does exist
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now! --[[Joey]]
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## status
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* Does not work with Cygwin's build of git (that git does not consistently
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support use of DOS style paths, which git-annex uses on Windows).
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Must use the upstream build of git for Windows.
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* rsync special remotes are known buggy.
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* Bad file locking, it's probably not safe to run more than one git-annex
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process at the same time on Windows.
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* Ssh connection caching does not work on Windows, so `git annex get`
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has to connect twice to the remote system over ssh per file, which
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is much slower than on systems supporting connection caching.
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* Webapp doesn't build yet.
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* `git annex watch` builds, but does not quite work.
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* `git annex assistant` builds, but has not been tested, and is known
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to not download any files. (transferrer doesn't built yet)
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* watch and assistant cannot be built with cabal. Possibly due to too many
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files overflowing command line length limit at link stage.
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To build a binary with them:
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`ghc --make git-annex.hs -threaded -XPackageImports -DWITH_ASSISTANT=1 -DWITH_WIN32NOTIFY=1`
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(should add all the other flags cabal uses)
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