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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-04 12:31:01 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-04 12:31:01 -0400
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situations. It lacks git-annex's support for widely distributed storage,
using only a single backend data store. It also does not support
partial checkouts of file contents, like git-annex does.
+
+* git-annex is also not [boar](http://code.google.com/p/boar/),
+ although it shares many of its goals and characteristics. Boar implements
+ its own version control system, rather than simply embarcing and
+ extending git. And while boar supports distributed clones of a repository,
+ it does not support keeping different files in different clones of the
+ same repository, which git-annex does, and is an important feature for
+ large-scale archiving.