# Installer git-annex avec Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, dnf, MacPorts, pacman, zypper, scoop

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

## installation

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

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-annex
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install git-annex
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-annex/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add git-annex
```

  Preuve: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-annex from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

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

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install git-annex
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: git-annex from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S git-annex
```

  Preuve: Arch Linux sync databases: git-annex from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install git-annex
```

  Preuve: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-annex from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install git-annex
```

  Preuve: Chocolatey community package catalog: git-annex from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','fusioninventory-agent'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/git-annex
```

  Preuve: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-annex.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:git-annex
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 10.20260717
- **Résumé source:** Manage files with git without checking in file contents
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://git-annex.branchable.com/>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-07-22T05:59:28Z
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- git-annex (alias)
- git-annex-shell (alias)
- git-remote-annex (alias)
- git-remote-tor-annex (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 10.20260717
## Historique du projet et usages

git-annex is a distributed data-management tool that lets Git track file names, directory history, and metadata while keeping large file contents outside normal Git objects.

### Historique du projet

The project grew around Joey Hess's idea of combining Git's distributed history with a key-value store for file contents. Its manual describes the core model: annexed files become versioned links, while content is stored under .git/annex/objects and can be fetched, copied, moved, or dropped between repositories.

The project broadened beyond a command-line annexer into a larger system with assistant workflows, preferred content, encryption, content verification, and many special remotes. A Kickstarter-backed development year funded concentrated work on the git-annex assistant, after which Joey continued development notes on the project devblog.

The release stream and project wiki show a long-lived maintenance culture: features such as git-remote-annex, clusters, new hash backends, and special-remote improvements were documented through the same site used for manual pages, installation instructions, forums, and news.

### Historique d'adoption

git-annex became important in communities that need reproducible paths and Git metadata without putting large data into Git itself. The official install page lists packaging across Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, NixOS, Gentoo, Guix, Void, openSUSE, Homebrew, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Android, Windows, conda, and PyPI.

Its ecosystem significance comes from special remotes and related tools. The project documents built-in remotes for S3, rsync, WebDAV, git-lfs, borg, bittorrent, tor, web, and rclone, and its devblog describes scientific users and DataLad-related work around storing Git repositories on annex special remotes.

### Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners use git-annex to keep large assets, media, archives, datasets, backups, and offline drives under a versioned tree. A typical workflow initializes a Git repository, runs git annex init, adds large files with git annex add, commits the symlinks or pointer files to Git, and transfers content with get, drop, copy, move, sync, fsck, and special-remote commands.

The tool is also used as a policy engine for storage availability. Users can set numcopies and preferred content rules, encrypt remotes, verify checksums, keep drives offline, and later ask git-annex where content lives or move it to a desired repository.

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

git-annex matters to package people because it sits at the intersection of Git, Haskell packaging, external data stores, and reproducible archival workflows. It has many executables, many optional integrations, and many platform-specific packages, so distributions treat it as a substantial data-management package rather than a tiny Git extension.

### Chronologie

- 2012: Public testimonials and the assistant campaign documented wider interest in Git-backed large-file workflows.
- 2012: The assistant work was funded through a Kickstarter-backed development year.
- 2025: The devblog described Distribits, scientific users, DataLad-related work, and git-remote-annex.
- 2026: Version 10.20260624 documented new hash-backend build flags, git-remote behavior improvements, and a new put command.

### Related projects

- Related systems include Git LFS, DataLad, rclone, borg, bup, rsync, S3-compatible storage, WebDAV storage, and provider-specific special remotes listed by the git-annex project.

### Sources

- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/install/>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/news/>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/>
- <https://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/>


## Notes de sécurité

formula declares a Homebrew service.

- **Risque Geiger:** orange / moyen
- formula declares a Homebrew service


## 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: .git/config, ~/.config/git-annex/autostart
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - git-annex - 10.20250416-2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: git-annex from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | manage files with git, without checking their contents into git | http://git-annex.branchable.com/
- Ubuntu apt - git-annex - 10.20240129-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-annex from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | manage files with git, without checking their contents into git | http://git-annex.branchable.com/
- apk - git-annex - 10.20260717-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-annex from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git | http://git-annex.branchable.com
- apk - git-annex-bash-completion - 10.20260717-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-annex-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for git-annex | http://git-annex.branchable.com
- apk - git-annex-doc - 10.20260717-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-annex-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git (documentation) | http://git-annex.branchable.com
- apk - git-annex-fish-completion - 10.20260717-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-annex-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for git-annex | http://git-annex.branchable.com
- apk - git-annex-zsh-completion - 10.20260717-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-annex-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for git-annex | http://git-annex.branchable.com
- dnf - git-annex - 10.20260601-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: git-annex from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
- pacman - git-annex - 10.20251215-116: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: git-annex from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git | https://git-annex.branchable.com/
- zypper - git-annex - 10.20260624-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-annex from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Manage files with git, without checking their contents into git | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
- zypper - git-annex-bash-completion - 10.20260624-1.3: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-annex-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bash completion for git-annex | https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-annex
- MacPorts - git-annex: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-annex/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - git-annex: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: git-annex from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','fusioninventory-agent'
- Scoop - main/git-annex: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-annex.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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