You can put this directory into your PATH, or symlink the programs in this
directory to anyplace already in your PATH, and use git-annex the same
as if you'd installed it using a package manager.
Or, you can use the runshell script in this directory to start a shell
that is configured to use git-annex and the other utilities included in
this bundle.
This should work on any Linux system of the appropriate architecture.
More or less.
How it works: This directory tree contains a lot of libraries and programs
that git-annex needs. But it's not a chroot. Instead, runshell sets a lot
of environment variables to cause files from here to be used, and a shim
around the binaries arranges for them to be run with the libraries in here.
It shouldn't even be dependent on the host system's glibc libraries.
All that's needed is a kernel that supports the glibc included in this
bundle.
