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Due to popular demand, git-annex can now be used with bare repositories.
So, for example, you can stash a file away in the origin:
`git annex move mybigfile --to origin`
Of course, for that to work, the bare repository has to be on a system with
[[git-annex-shell]] installed. If "origin" is on GitWeb, you still can't
use git-annex to store stuff there.
It took a while, but bare repositories are now supported exactly as well
as non-bare repositories. Except for these caveats:
* `git annex fsck` works in a bare repository, but does not display
warnings about insufficient
[[copies]]. To get those warnings, just run it in one of the non-bare
checkouts.
* `git annex unused` in a bare repository only knows about keys used in
branches that have been pushed to the bare repository. So use it with care..
* Commands that need a work tree, like `git annex add` won't work in a bare
repository, of course.
* However, you can run commands like `git annex copy`, `git annex get`, and
`git annex drop` in a bare repository. In a bare repository, these
behave as if the `--all` option were used, and so operate
on every single version of every single file that is present in the git
repository history. The `--branch` option can be used to make these
commands only operate on the files referenced by a specified branch.
For example: `git annex get --branch master`
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Here is a quick example of how to set this up, using `origin` as the remote name, and assuming `~/annex` contains an annex:
On the server:
git init --bare bare-annex.git
cd bare-annex.git && git annex init origin
Now configure the remote and do the initial push:
cd ~/annex
git remote add origin example.com:bare-annex.git
git push origin master git-annex
Now `git annex info` should show the configured bare remote. If it does
not, you may have to pull from the remote first (older versions of
`git-annex`).
If you wish to configure git such that you can push/pull without arguments,
set the upstream branch:
git branch master --set-upstream origin/master
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