git-annex/doc/assistant/quickstart.mdwn
Joey Hess e213ef310f git-annex (5.20140717) unstable; urgency=high
* Fix minor FD leak in journal code. Closes: #754608
  * direct: Fix handling of case where a work tree subdirectory cannot
    be written to due to permissions.
  * migrate: Avoid re-checksumming when migrating from hashE to hash backend.
  * uninit: Avoid failing final removal in some direct mode repositories
    due to file modes.
  * S3: Deal with AWS ACL configurations that do not allow creating or
    checking the location of a bucket, but only reading and writing content to
    it.
  * resolvemerge: New plumbing command that runs the automatic merge conflict
    resolver.
  * Deal with change in git 2.0 that made indirect mode merge conflict
    resolution leave behind old files.
  * sync: Fix git sync with local git remotes even when they don't have an
    annex.uuid set. (The assistant already did so.)
  * Set gcrypt-publish-participants when setting up a gcrypt repository,
    to avoid unncessary passphrase prompts.
    This is a security/usability tradeoff. To avoid exposing the gpg key
    ids who can decrypt the repository, users can unset
    gcrypt-publish-participants.
  * Install nautilus hooks even when ~/.local/share/nautilus/ does not yet
    exist, since it is not automatically created for Gnome 3 users.
  * Windows: Move .vbs files out of git\bin, to avoid that being in the
    PATH, which caused some weird breakage. (Thanks, divB)
  * Windows: Fix locking issue that prevented the webapp starting
    (since 5.20140707).

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## first run
To get started with the git-annex assistant, just pick it from
your system's list of applications.
[[!img assistant/menu.png]]
[[!img assistant/osx-app.png]]
It'll prompt you to set up a folder:
[[!img assistant/makerepo.png]]
Then any changes you make to its folder will automatically be committed to
git, and synced to repositories on other computers. You can use the
interface to add repositories and control the git-annex assistant.
[[!img assistant/running.png]]
## starting on boot
The git-annex assistant will automatically be started when you log in to
desktop environments like Mac OS X, Gnome, XFCE, and KDE, and the menu item
shown above can be used to open the webapp. On other systems, you may need
to start it by hand.
To start the webapp, run `git annex webapp` at the command line.
To start the assistant without opening the webapp,
you can run the command "git annex assistant --autostart". This is a
good thing to configure your system to run automatically when you log in.