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* unannex, uninit: Avoid committing after every file is unannexed,
for massive speedup.
* --notify-finish switch will cause desktop notifications after each
file upload/download/drop completes
(using the dbus Desktop Notifications Specification)
* --notify-start switch will show desktop notifications when each
file upload/download starts.
* webapp: Automatically install Nautilus integration scripts
to get and drop files.
* tahoe: Pass -d parameter before subcommand; putting it after
the subcommand no longer works with tahoe-lafs version 1.10.
(Thanks, Alberto Berti)
* forget --drop-dead: Avoid removing the dead remote from the trust.log,
so that if git remotes for it still exist anywhere, git annex info
will still know it's dead and not show it.
* git-annex-shell: Make configlist automatically initialize
a remote git repository, as long as a git-annex branch has
been pushed to it, to simplify setup of remote git repositories,
including via gitolite.
* add --include-dotfiles: New option, perhaps useful for backups.
* Version 5.20140227 broke creation of glacier repositories,
not including the datacenter and vault in their configuration.
This bug is fixed, but glacier repositories set up with the broken
version of git-annex need to have the datacenter and vault set
in order to be usable. This can be done using git annex enableremote
to add the missing settings. For details, see
http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/problems_with_glacier/
* Added required content configuration.
* assistant: Improve ssh authorized keys line generated in local pairing
or for a remote ssh server to set environment variables in an
alternative way that works with the non-POSIX fish shell, as well
as POSIX shells.
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[Box.com](http://box.com/) is a file storage service, currently notable
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for providing 50 gb of free storage if you sign up with its Android client.
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(Or a few gb free otherwise.)
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git-annex can use Box as a [[special remote|special_remotes]].
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Recent versions of git-annex make this very easy to set up:
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WEBDAV_USERNAME=you@example.com WEBDAV_PASSWORD=xxxxxxx git annex initremote box.com type=webdav url=https://dav.box.com/dav/git-annex chunksize=75mb encryption=shared
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Note the use of chunksize; Box has a 100 mb maximum file size, and this
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breaks up large files into chunks before that limit is reached.
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# old davfs2 method
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This method is deprecated, but still documented here just in case.
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Note that the files stored using this method cannot reliably be retreived
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using the webdav special remote.
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## davfs2 setup
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* First, install
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the [davfs2](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2) program,
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which can mount Box using WebDAV. On Debian, just `sudo apt-get install davfs2`
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* Allow users to mount davfs filesystems, by ensuring that
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`/sbin/mount.davfs` is setuid root. On Debian, just `sudo dpkg-reconfigure davfs2`
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* Add yourself to the davfs2 group.
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sudo adduser $(whoami) davfs2
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* Edit `/etc/fstab`, and add a line to mount Box using davfs.
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sudo mkdir -p /media/box.com
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echo "https://dav.box.com/dav/ /media/box.com davfs noauto,user 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
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* Create `~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf` with some important settings:
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mkdir ~/.davfs2/
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echo use_locks 0 > ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf
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echo cache_size 1 >> ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf
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echo delay_upload 0 >> ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf
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* Create `~/.davfs2/secrets`. This file contains your Box.com login and password.
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Your login is probably the email address you signed up with.
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echo "/media/box.com joey@kitenet.net mypassword" > ~/.davfs2/secrets
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chmod 600 ~/.davfs2/secrets
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* Now you should be able to mount Box, as a non-root user:
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mount /media/box.com
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## git-annex setup
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You need git-annex version 3.20120303 or newer, which adds support for chunking
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files larger than Box's 100 mb limit.
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Create the special remote, in your git-annex repository.
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** This example is non-encrypted; fill in your gpg key ID for a securely
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encrypted special remote! **
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git annex initremote box.com type=directory directory=/media/box.com chunksize=2mb encryption=none
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Now git-annex can copy files to box.com, get files from it, etc, just like
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with any other special remote.
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% git annex copy bigfile --to box.com
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bigfile (to box.com...) ok
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% git annex drop bigfile
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bigfile (checking box.com...) ok
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% git annex get bigfile
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bigfile (from box.com...) ok
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