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* webapp: Detect when upgrades are available, and upgrade if the user
desires.
(Only when git-annex is installed using the prebuilt binaries
from git-annex upstream, not from eg Debian.)
* assistant: Detect when the git-annex binary is modified or replaced,
and either prompt the user to restart the program, or automatically
restart it.
* annex.autoupgrade configures both the above upgrade behaviors.
* Added support for quvi 0.9. Slightly suboptimal due to limitations in its
interface compared with the old version.
* Bug fix: annex.version did not get set on automatic upgrade to v5 direct
mode repo, so the upgrade was performed repeatedly, slowing commands down.
* webapp: Fix bug that broke switching between local repositories
that use the new guarded direct mode.
* Android: Fix stripping of the git-annex binary.
* Android: Make terminal app show git-annex version number.
* Android: Re-enable XMPP support.
* reinject: Allow to be used in direct mode.
* Futher improvements to git repo repair. Has now been tested in tens
of thousands of intentionally damaged repos, and successfully
repaired them all.
* Allow use of --unused in bare repository.
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In git, there can be multiple clones of a repository, each clone can
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be independently modified, and clones can push or pull changes to
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one-another to get back in sync.
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git-annex preserves that fundamental distributed nature of git, while
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dropping the requirement that, once in sync, each clone contains all the data
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that was committed to each other clone. Instead of storing the content
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of a file in the repository, git-annex stores a pointer to the content.
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Each git-annex repository is responsible for storing some of the content,
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and can copy it to or from other repositories. [[Location_tracking]]
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information is committed to git, to let repositories inform other
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repositories what file contents they have available.
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The [[walkthrough]] shows how to create a distributed set of git-annex
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repositories with no central repository.
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Prefer a central repository like GitHub? See the
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[[tips/centralized_git_repository_tutorial]].
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