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git-annex is in a mode of continual user-driven improvement, involving numerous
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small issues and often easily implemented ideas.
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Here are some larger/ongoing plans for git-annex, in no particular order.
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Speed improvements, including:
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* Speed up git checkout in v7 repository by
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improving git's smudge/clean filter interface, or some other approach, to avoid needing to fork
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git-annex once per file during the checkout.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/git_smudge_clean_interface_suboptiomal/>
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/Long_Running_Filter_Process/>
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* Speed up git-annex branch data queries and updates by rewriting it to
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use ByteStrings. May become an order of magnitude faster. Using
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libgit2 to access data from the branch w/o using the git interface
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may also improve speed.
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* Improve speed of git-annex when operating on large numbers of files.
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Approaches include better caching of data, and switching to packed
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FilePaths and other better data structures.
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* Enable parallelism by default.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/config_option_to_use_all_processors_by_default/>
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Improvements to tree export support, including supporting export to more
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external special remotes, exporting only preferred content, more
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efficient renames, and improving support for exporting non-annexed files.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/export_preferred_content/>
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/export_paired_rename_innefficenctcy/>
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/Exporting_with_exporttree_should_sync_files_deleted_from_the_remote/>
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Complimenting tree export, support importing trees from special remotes so eg a
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S3 bucket of data can be pulled into a git-annex repository easily, and the
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repository updated when the bucket is changed.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/import_tree/>
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Improve support for branches where annexed files without content locally
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present are hidden (adjust --hide-missing). Including interface for
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operating on hidden files to get them, speeding up generation of the
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branch, and updating it more frequently.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/better_way_to_get_missing_files/>
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Also unify adjusted branches and view branches.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/unify_adjust_with_view/>
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Improve Windows support. Long filenames may be possible on Windows now
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thanks to fixes in recent versions of ghc. Further improve using
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git-annex in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Get Windows fully
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supported with no caveats. Possibly even supporting indirect mode with
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symlinks.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/windows_support/>
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/utilising_the_mklink_command_on_windows_to_utilise_symlinks_and_therefore_indirect_mode_on_windows/>
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Add more special remotes, and/or ship a collection of existing external
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special remotes as part of git-annex. Improve existing special remotes,
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eg adding support for Glacier lifecycles to S3.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/wishlist__58___Restore_s3_files_moved_to_Glacier/>
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Deltas to improve transfer of modified versions of files.
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<https://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/deltas/>
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