Our development team has been using git for version control and using git-annex to store large binary files (data-binaries, images, test-binaries etc). Although we have been able to set it up and u...

I tried installing git-annex yesterday to backup my files. I ran git annex add . in the root of my repository tree and then a git commit. So far everything is fine. What I didn't know git-annex wa...

In a moment of delirium before a deadline, I added a large (> 100 MB) binary to a repository with remotes on private hosts as well as github. Of course, github complained, and naively trusting thei...

git-annex has been around for quite some time, but never really gained momentum. Git LFS is rather young and is already supported by GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. Both tools handle binary files in...

How can I migrate a repository in which I'm managing large files with Git-annex to manage them with Git LFS? Which commands should I run to disable annex and enable LFS?

I'd like to know if it's possible to minimize the download times of large files when using Git LFS. specifically, the following scenarios: keep files when switching branches allow to get files fro...

when running the command : git annex sync, I get the following error: ControlPath too long Command ssh ["-S","<local path to git repo>/.git/annex/ssh/git@<git url>","-o","ControlMaster...

I run a GitLab instance and would like to allow my users to upload files of almost any size. It is well-known that git still has problems with large files. I am aware of approaches to circumvent ...

For a while I've been using Dropbox with ~/Documents symlinked inside, which includes several git repos, so I have been indulging in the frowned-upon practice of synchronising the same git repos ac...

Is it somehow possible to run git-annex on windows?

I'm using git-annex to manage my files. Some of my remotes are available using 2 or 3 methods, for example ssh and nfs, but the nfs access is only possible on my local network, of course. Then, git...