git-annex-backends(1)

git-annex-backends1

Key/value backends for git-annex

Overview

The "backend" in git-annex controls how a key is generated from a file's content and/or filesystem metadata. Most backends are different kinds of hashes. A single repository can use different backends for different files.

For a list of available backends, see git-annex version. For more details, see <https://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/>

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–Arch

Author

Joey Hess <[email protected]>

<http://git-annex.branchable.com/>

From git-annex 10.20261026-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.