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## version 3.20120924
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This is the first beta release of the git-annex assistant.
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In general, anything you can configure with the assistant's web app
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will work. Some examples of use cases supported by this release include:
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* [[Pairing|pairing_walkthrough]] two computers that are on the same local
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network (or VPN) and automatically keeping the files in the annex in
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sync as changes are made to them.
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* Cloning your repository to removable drives, USB keys, etc. The assistant
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will notice when the drive is mounted and keep it in sync.
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Such a drive can be stored as an offline backup, or transported between
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computers to keep them in sync.
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* Cloning your repository to a remote server, running ssh, and uploading
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changes made to your files to the server. There is special support
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for using the rsync.net cloud provider this way, or any shell account
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on a typical unix server, such as a Linode VPS can be used.
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The following are known limitations of this release of the git-annex
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assistant:
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* On Mac OSX and BSD operating systems, the assistant uses kqueue to watch
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files. Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many
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directories will run it out of the max number of open files (typically
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1024), and fail. See [[bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]]
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for a workaround.
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* In order to ensure that all multiple repositories are kept in sync,
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each computer with a repository must be running the git-annex assistant.
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* The assistant does not yet always manage to keep repositories in sync
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when some are hidden from others behind firewalls.
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* If a file is checked into git as a normal file and gets modified
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(or merged, etc), it will be converted into an annexed file. So you
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should not mix use of the assistant with normal git files in the same
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repository yet.
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* If you `git annex unlock` a file, it will immediately be re-locked.
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See [[bugs/watcher_commits_unlocked_files]].
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