git-annex/ download

The main git repository for git-annex is git://git-annex.branchable.com/

(You can push changes to this wiki from that anonymous git checkout.)

Other mirrors of the git repository:

To download a tarball of a particular release, use an url like http://git.kitenet.net/?p=git-annex.git;a=snapshot;sf=tgz;h=refs/tags/3.20110702

From time to time, releases of git-annex are uploaded to hackage.

Some operating systems include git-annex in easily prepackaged form and others need some manual work. See install for details.

Please provide stable tarballs or zipfiles
I'm trying to package git annex for ArchLinux and NixOS. That task would be a lot easier, if there were proper release archives available for download. The Gitweb site offers to create snapshot tarballs on the fly, but those tarballs have a different SHA hash every time they're generated, so they cannot be used for the purposes of a distribution. A simple solution for this problem would be to enable snapshots in zip format (because zip files look the same every time they're generated).
Comment by http://peter-simons.myopenid.com/ — Tue Mar 22 13:06:58 2011
comment 3

The tarballs produced by gitweb are actually stable. They are wrapped in a gz file with a varying timestamp however. It might be nice if gitweb passed --no-name to gzip to avoid that inconsistency.

git-annex also has a pristine-tar branch in git that can be used to recreate the tarballs I upload to Debian.

Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ — Tue Mar 22 18:09:21 2011
gitweb supplies --no-name as of 1.7.5.1

git v1.7.5.1 fixes the gitweb gzip issue. If the git instance is updated we can have stable distributions (and I can finally write a FreeBSD port ^_^)

Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnOvt3TwSSDOLnoVzDNbOP1qO9OmNH5s0s — Thu May 19 08:19:02 2011
comment 5
Hmm, I've upgraded to that version, but I see nothing in its changelog, commit log, code, or runtime behavior to indicate that it's producing stable gzip output.
Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ — Thu May 19 16:10:35 2011
comment 6

Whups, the fix landed in git's `maint' branch just after 1.7.5 but 1.7.5.1 was tagged on a different branch.

Will look closer in future, and let you know when it's really released.

Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnOvt3TwSSDOLnoVzDNbOP1qO9OmNH5s0s — Sun May 22 23:02:39 2011
comment 7
v1.7.5.3 has it.
Comment by https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnOvt3TwSSDOLnoVzDNbOP1qO9OmNH5s0s — Fri May 27 01:27:37 2011
comment 8
And that is now installed on kitenet.net and verified to work.
Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ — Sat May 28 16:04:51 2011
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