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* Added arm64 Linux standalone build. (No autobuilder yet.) * Improved termux installation process. Added git-annex-install.sh script to avoid user needing to type as much in termux. The scope of this script is limited; runshell handles the rest. Runshell runs termux-fix-shebang on the shell scripts. The problem is the bundled bin/sh script, deleting that script also works, but then the others probably use the system Android /bin/sh, which could be old or broken or not posix or whatever. Using termux sh to run the scripts is better. This commit was sponsored by Eric Drechsel on Patreon.
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[Termux](https://termux.com/) is an Android app that can run some
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Linux software in a terminal.
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git-annex is not currently part of the Termux distribution, but it's easy
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to install it. Paste these commands into Termux:
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pkg install wget
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wget https://git-annex.branchable.com/install/Android/git-annex-install.sh
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sh git-annex-install.sh
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Now you can set up a git-annex repository or two, to manage your
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Android files. To avoid typing any more, you can start up the
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git-annex webapp and set things up in there:
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git annex webapp
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Or you can continue using git-annex at the command line. Here we'll make a
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repository for photos:
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cd ~/storage/dcim
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git init
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git annex init
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You can go on to set up a ssh remote pointing to a server, and sync
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your files to and from it.
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And so on. Most ways you would use git-annex on a Linux system work fairly
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well in this Termux environment.
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## Starting on boot
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If you install the Termux:Boot app, git-annex will also integrate with it.
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Repositories you create with the webapp (or listed in
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~/.config/git-annex/autostart) will have the assistant started in them on
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boot, so you don't need to start it manually.
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## Known limitations
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* Direct mode
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git-annex will probably default to direct mode due to the
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limitations of Android's /sdcard. You can get around this using v6
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unlocked repositories, or by putting the git-annex repository on a better
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filesystem on the Android device, such as your termux home directory.
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## Upgrading
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To upgrade to a new git-annex release, just run
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`git-annex-install.sh` again.
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