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31 lines
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Porting git-annex to Android will use the Android native SDK.
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A hopefully small Java app will be developed, which runs the webapp
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daemon, and a web browser to display it.
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### programs to port
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These will probably need to be bundled into the Android app, unless already
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available in the App Store.
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* ssh (native ssh needed for scp, not a client like ConnectBot)
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* rsync
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* gpg
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* git (not all git commands are needed, but a core plumbing and a few like `git-add` are.)
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### FAT sucks
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The main media partition will use some awful FAT filesystem format from
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1982 that cannot support git-annex's symlinks. Hopefully it can at least
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handle all of git's filenames. Possible approaches to this:
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* Keep only a bare git repo on Android. The app would then need to include
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a file browser to access the files in there, and adding a file would move
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it into the repo. Not ideal.
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* Implement [[smudge]] filters to avoid needing symlinks. Difficult.
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* Use a bare git repo but don't keep files in `annex/objects`, instead
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leave them outside the repo, and add some local mapping to find them.
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Seems best?
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* Use a `LD_PRELOAD` wrapper to do Something Crazy.
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(May want to consider which of these would make a Windows port easier too.)
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