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24 lines
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### use case: The Nomad
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Alice is always on the move, often with her trusty netbook and a small
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handheld terabyte USB drive, or a smaller USB keydrive. She has a server
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out there on the net. She stores data, encrypted in the Cloud.
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All these things can have different files on them, but Alice no longer
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has to deal with the tedious process of keeping them manually in sync,
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or remembering where she put a file. git-annex manages all these data
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sources as if they were git remotes.
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<small>[[more about special remotes|special_remotes]]</small>
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When she has 1 bar on her cell, Alice queues up interesting files on her
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server for later. At a coffee shop, she has git-annex download them to her
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USB drive. High in the sky or in a remote cabin, she catches up on
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podcasts, videos, and games, first letting git-annex copy them from
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her USB drive to the netbook (this saves battery power).
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<small>[[more about transferring data|transferring_data]]</small>
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When she's done, she tells git-annex which to keep and which to remove.
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They're all removed from her netbook to save space, and Alice knows
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that next time she syncs up to the net, her changes will be synced back
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to her server.
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<small>[[more about distributed version control|distributed_version_control]]</small>
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