macOS
brew install git-annexlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install git-annexMacPorts ports tree · devel/git-annex/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
brew
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für git-annex in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install git-annexlocal Homebrew formula metadata
sudo port install git-annexMacPorts ports tree · devel/git-annex/Portfile · Quelle: api.github.com
sudo apk add git-annexAlpine Linux edge package indexes · git-annex · Quelle: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org
sudo apt install git-annexDebian stable package indexes · git-annex · Quelle: deb.debian.org
sudo dnf install git-annexFedora Rawhide package metadata · git-annex · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org
sudo pacman -S git-annexArch Linux sync databases · git-annex · Quelle: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com
sudo zypper install git-annexopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · git-annex · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
choco install git-annexChocolatey community package catalog · git-annex · Quelle: community.chocolatey.org
scoop install main/git-annexScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/git-annex.json · Quelle: api.github.com
Überblick
Manage files with git without checking in file contents
Verlauf
git-annex is a distributed data-management tool that lets Git track file names, directory history, and metadata while keeping large file contents outside normal Git objects.
The project grew around Joey Hess's idea of combining Git's distributed history with a key-value store for file contents. Its manual describes the core model: annexed files become versioned links, while content is stored under .git/annex/objects and can be fetched, copied, moved, or dropped between repositories.
The project broadened beyond a command-line annexer into a larger system with assistant workflows, preferred content, encryption, content verification, and many special remotes. A Kickstarter-backed development year funded concentrated work on the git-annex assistant, after which Joey continued development notes on the project devblog.
The release stream and project wiki show a long-lived maintenance culture: features such as git-remote-annex, clusters, new hash backends, and special-remote improvements were documented through the same site used for manual pages, installation instructions, forums, and news.
git-annex became important in communities that need reproducible paths and Git metadata without putting large data into Git itself. The official install page lists packaging across Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, NixOS, Gentoo, Guix, Void, openSUSE, Homebrew, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, Windows, conda, and PyPI.
Its ecosystem significance comes from special remotes and related tools. The project documents built-in remotes for S3, rsync, WebDAV, git-lfs, borg, bittorrent, tor, web, and rclone, and its devblog describes scientific users and DataLad-related work around storing Git repositories on annex special remotes.
Practitioners use git-annex to keep large assets, media, archives, datasets, backups, and offline drives under a versioned tree. A typical workflow initializes a Git repository, runs git annex init, adds large files with git annex add, commits the symlinks or pointer files to Git, and transfers content with get, drop, copy, move, sync, fsck, and special-remote commands.
The tool is also used as a policy engine for storage availability. Users can set numcopies and preferred content rules, encrypt remotes, verify checksums, keep drives offline, and later ask git-annex where content lives or move it to a desired repository.
git-annex matters to package people because it sits at the intersection of Git, Haskell packaging, external data stores, and reproducible archival workflows. It has many executables, many optional integrations, and many platform-specific packages, so distributions treat it as a substantial data-management package rather than a tiny Git extension.
Sicherheitslage
formula declares a Homebrew service.
orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
.git/config~/.config/git-annex/autostartExecutables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
git-annex | cli | globales Executable | |
git-annex-shell | cli | globales Executable | |
git-remote-annex | cli | globales Executable | |
git-remote-tor-annex | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:git-annex |
|---|---|
| Version | 10.20260624 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-annex |
| Homepage | https://git-annex.branchable.com/ |
| Repository | https://source.git-annex.branchable.com/ |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://git-annex.branchable.com/ |
| Lizenz | AGPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND MIT |
| Quellarchiv | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex-10.20260624/git-annex-10.20260624.tar.gz |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-06-28T22:11:54Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Abhängigkeiten | gmp, libmagic |
| Build-Abhängigkeiten | cabal-install, ghc, pkgconf |
| Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken | libffi, sqlite |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | declared |
Registry-Fakten
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | git-annex |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Source-Datenbank-Treffer
Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.
git-annex 10.20250416-2
manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
http://git-annex.branchable.com/
sudo apt install git-annexgit-annex 10.20240129-1build1
manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
http://git-annex.branchable.com/
sudo apt install git-annexgit-annex 10.20260421-r0
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
http://git-annex.branchable.com
sudo apk add git-annexgit-annex-bash-completion 10.20260421-r0
Bash completions for git-annex
http://git-annex.branchable.com
sudo apk add git-annex-bash-completiongit-annex-doc 10.20260421-r0
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git (documentation)
http://git-annex.branchable.com
sudo apk add git-annex-docgit-annex-fish-completion 10.20260421-r0
Fish completions for git-annex
http://git-annex.branchable.com
sudo apk add git-annex-fish-completiongit-annex-zsh-completion 10.20260421-r0
Zsh completions for git-annex
http://git-annex.branchable.com
sudo apk add git-annex-zsh-completiongit-annex 10.20260115-1.fc44
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
sudo dnf install git-annexgit-annex-docs 10.20260115-1.fc44
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
sudo dnf install git-annex-docsgit-annex 10.20251215-63
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
https://git-annex.branchable.com/
sudo pacman -S git-annexgit-annex 10.20251215-1.4
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
sudo zypper install git-annexgit-annex-bash-completion 10.20251215-1.4
Bash completion for git-annex
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
sudo zypper install git-annex-bash-completiongit-annex
sudo port install git-annexgit-annex
choco install git-annexmain/git-annex
scoop install main/git-annexQuellspur
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