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To get a feel for git-annex, see the [[walkthrough]] or read about [[how_it_works]].

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If that describes you, or if you're some from column A and some from column
B, then git-annex may be the tool you've been looking for to expand from
keeping all your small important files in git, to managing your large
files with git.

## documentation

* [[git-annex man page|git-annex]]
* [[key-value backends|backends]] for data storage
* [[special_remotes]] (including [[special_remotes/S3]] and [[special_remotes/bup]])
* [[sync]]
* [[encryption]]
* [[bare_repositories]]
* [[internals]]
* [[scalability]]
* [[design]]
* [[what git annex is not|not]]
* [[sitemap]]

## talks

<video controls src="http://video.fosdem.org/2012/lightningtalks/git_annex___manage_files_with_git,_without_checking_their_contents_into_git.webm" width="500"></video>  
A [15 minute introduction to git-annex](http://video.fosdem.org/2012/lightningtalks/git_annex___manage_files_with_git,_without_checking_their_contents_into_git.webm), presented by Richard Hartmann.

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