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authorSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>2011-12-04 18:36:26 +0000
committerSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>2011-12-04 18:36:26 +0000
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Initial version. manage files with git, without checking their contents into git. (requested in bug #343563 by Christoph Junghans)
(Portage version: 2.2.0_alpha77_p1/cvs/Linux x86_64)
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <herd>haskell</herd>
+ <maintainer>
+ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+ git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file
+ contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when
+ dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due
+ to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space.
+
+ Even without file content tracking, being able to manage files with git,
+ move files around and delete files with versioned directory trees, and use
+ branches and distributed clones, are all very handy reasons to use git. And
+ annexed files can co-exist in the same git repository with regularly
+ versioned files, which is convenient for maintaining documents, Makefiles,
+ etc that are associated with annexed files but that benefit from full
+ revision control.
+ </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>