# Installer git-annex-remote-rclone avec Homebrew, apt, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de git-annex-remote-rclone pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:git-annex-remote-rclone
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-annex-remote-rclone
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install git-annex-remote-rclone
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: git-annex-remote-rclone from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-annex-remote-rclone
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-annex-remote-rclone/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:git-annex-remote-rclone
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.8
- **Résumé source:** Use rclone supported cloud storage with git-annex
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- git-annex-remote-rclone (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.8
## Historique du projet et usages

git-annex-remote-rclone is a Python external special remote for git-annex that delegates storage operations to rclone, letting annexed content live on cloud and object-storage services supported by rclone.

### Historique du projet

The project appeared in 2016 as a small wrapper around rclone rather than a new storage backend. Early releases dealt with repository layout choices for object placement; version 0.1 used the older frankencase layout, version 0.2 added multiple layout support, and version 0.4 raised compatibility with rclone 1.33 after a data-loss warning for older versions.

Maintenance later moved from Daniel Dent's personal namespace to a contributor organization while retaining the same narrow purpose: expose rclone destinations through git-annex's external special remote protocol.

### Historique d'adoption

Its adoption is niche but useful inside the git-annex ecosystem. The tool packages a single integration point for providers such as Google Drive, S3-compatible storage, Dropbox, OneDrive, Backblaze B2, Swift, and other rclone targets, so package managers can ship one git-annex add-on instead of many provider-specific remotes.

### Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners configure an rclone remote, create or enable a git-annex repository, then run git annex initremote with type=external, externaltype=rclone, a target name, a prefix, encryption settings, chunk size, and an rclone layout. Password-protected rclone configs are passed through environment variables or a password command, while credentials remain in the rclone configuration rather than in git-annex.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers, git-annex-remote-rclone is a bridge package: it is tiny, depends on behavior from both git-annex and rclone, and needs compatibility testing whenever rclone output or git-annex special-remote behavior changes.

### Chronologie

- 2016: Repository created and v0.1 published with the original frankencase layout.
- 2016: v0.2 added multiple repository layout support.
- 2016: v0.4 added support for rclone 1.33 after a data-loss warning for earlier releases.
- 2023: v0.8 reduced command noise while keeping the same integration role.

### Related projects

- git-annex provides the special remote protocol, rclone provides the cloud-storage transports, and git-annex's built-in rclone special remote documents the same family of use cases.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-annex-remote-rclone>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/rclone/>
- <https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone>
- <https://github.com/git-annex-remote-rclone/git-annex-remote-rclone/releases>


## Notes de sécurité

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.rclone.conf

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.rclone.conf
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - git-annex-remote-rclone - 0.8-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: git-annex-remote-rclone from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | rclone-based git annex special remote | https://github.com/DanielDent/git-annex-remote-rclone
- Nix - git-annex-remote-rclone: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-annex-remote-rclone/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - git-annex-remote-rclone - 0.8-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-annex-remote-rclone from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | rclone-based git annex special remote | https://github.com/DanielDent/git-annex-remote-rclone


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/git-annex-remote-rclone.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/git-annex-remote-rclone.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
