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:

* `git://git.kitenet.net/git-annex` [[gitweb](http://git.kitenet.net/?p=git-annex.git;a=summary)]
* [at github](https://github.com/joeyh/git-annex)

Releases of git-annex are uploaded
[to hackage](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex). Get your
tarballs there, if you need them.

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

## git branches

The git repository has some branches:

* `ghc7.0` supports versions of ghc older than 7.4, which
  had a major change to filename encoding.
* `old-monad-control` is for systems that don't have a newer monad-control
  library.
* `no-ifelse` avoids using the IFelse library
  (merge it into master if you need it)
* `no-bloom` avoids using bloom filters. (merge it into master if you need it)
* `no-s3` avoids using the S3 library (merge it into master if you need it)
* `debian-stable` contains the latest backport of git-annex to Debian
  stable.
* `tweak-fetch` adds support for the git tweak-fetch hook, which has
  been proposed and implemented but not yet accepted into git.
* `setup` contains configuration for this website
* `pristine-tar` contains [pristine-tar](http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/pristine-tar)
  data to create tarballs of any past git-annex release.

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Developing git-annex? Patches are very welcome.
You should read [[coding_style]].