Installer git-annex-remote-rclone avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• git-annex-remote-rclone

Historique du projet

The project appeared in 2016 as a small wrapper around rclone rather than a new storage backend. Early releases dealt with repository layout choices for object placement; version 0.1 used the older frankencase layout, version 0.2 added multiple layout support, and version 0.4 raised compatibility with rclone 1.33 after a data-loss warning for older versions.

Maintenance later moved from Daniel Dent's personal namespace to a contributor organization while retaining the same narrow purpose: expose rclone destinations through git-annex's external special remote protocol.

Historique d'adoption

Its adoption is niche but useful inside the git-annex ecosystem. The tool packages a single integration point for providers such as Google Drive, S3-compatible storage, Dropbox, OneDrive, Backblaze B2, Swift, and other rclone targets, so package managers can ship one git-annex add-on instead of many provider-specific remotes.

Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners configure an rclone remote, create or enable a git-annex repository, then run git annex initremote with type=external, externaltype=rclone, a target name, a prefix, encryption settings, chunk size, and an rclone layout. Password-protected rclone configs are passed through environment variables or a password command, while credentials remain in the rclone configuration rather than in git-annex.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers, git-annex-remote-rclone is a bridge package: it is tiny, depends on behavior from both git-annex and rclone, and needs compatibility testing whenever rclone output or git-annex special-remote behavior changes.

Chronologie

• 2016: Repository created and v0.1 published with the original frankencase layout.
• 2016: v0.2 added multiple repository layout support.
• 2016: v0.4 added support for rclone 1.33 after a data-loss warning for earlier releases.
• 2023: v0.8 reduced command noise while keeping the same integration role.

Related projects

• git-annex provides the special remote protocol, rclone provides the cloud-storage transports, and git-annex's built-in rclone special remote documents the same family of use cases.

Sources

• https://api.github.com/repos/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-annex-remote-rclone
• https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/rclone/
• https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone
• https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone/releases