Information about the package, git-annex, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The git-annex package is designed for, Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git.
Package Name:
git-annex
Summary:
Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git
Description:
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. When a file is annexed, its content is moved into a key-value store, and a symlink is made that points to the content. These symlinks are checked into git and versioned like regular files. You can move them around, delete them, and so on. Pushing to another git repository will make git-annex there aware of the annexed file, and it can be used to retrieve its content from the key-value store.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.20120522
Release:
2.1.el6
Size:
392 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the git-annex package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install git-annex
This command will install git-annex on the server.
yum remove git-annex
This command will un-install git-annex on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove git-annex, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove git-annex
This command will un-install git-annex on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove git-annex when using the -y flag.
yum update git-annex
This command will update git-annex to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove git-annex, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update git-annex
This command will update git-annex to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove git-annex when using the -y flag.
yum info git-annex
This command will show you core information about the git-annex package.
yum deplist git-annex
This command will show you the dependencies for git-annex. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update git-annex
This command will check if there is an update waiting on git-annex. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.