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diff --git a/dev-vcs/git-annex/metadata.xml b/dev-vcs/git-annex/metadata.xml index 8d49ace368ce..acfc1100620e 100644 --- a/dev-vcs/git-annex/metadata.xml +++ b/dev-vcs/git-annex/metadata.xml @@ -5,30 +5,39 @@ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email> <name>Gentoo Haskell</name> </maintainer> - <longdescription> - git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file - contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when - dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due - to limitations in memory, checksumming time, or disk space. - - Even without file content tracking, being able to manage files with git, - move files around and delete files with versioned directory trees, and use - branches and distributed clones, are all very handy reasons to use git. And - annexed files can co-exist in the same git repository with regularly - versioned files, which is convenient for maintaining documents, Makefiles, - etc that are associated with annexed files but that benefit from full - revision control. - </longdescription> <use> <flag name="assistant">Enable git-annex assistant and watch command</flag> <flag name="benchmark">Enable benchmarking</flag> + <flag name="dbus">Enable dbus support</flag> <flag name="debuglocks">Debug location of MVar/STM deadlocks</flag> + <flag name="gitlfs">Build with git-lfs library (rather than vendored copy)</flag> + <flag name="httpclientrestricted">Build with http-client-restricted library (rather than vendored copy)</flag> <flag name="magicmime">Use libmagic to determine file MIME types</flag> - <flag name="network-3">Use network-3</flag> - <flag name="pairing">Enable pairing of git annex repositories</flag> - <flag name="s3">Enable Amazon S3 remote</flag> + <flag name="networkbsd">Build with network-3.0 which split out network-bsd</flag> + <flag name="network-3">Build with network-3.0 which split out network-bsd</flag> + <flag name="pairing">Enable pairing</flag> + <flag name="s3">Enable S3 support</flag> <flag name="torrentparser">Use haskell torrent library to parse torrent files</flag> <flag name="webapp">Enable git-annex webapp</flag> - <flag name="webdav">Enable webdav remote</flag> + <flag name="webdav">Enable WebDAV support</flag> </use> + <longdescription> + git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file + contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when + dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due + to limitations in memory, time, or disk space. + + It can store large files in many places, from local hard drives, to a + large number of cloud storage services, including S3, WebDAV, + and rsync, with a dozen cloud storage providers usable via plugins. + Files can be stored encrypted with gpg, so that the cloud storage + provider cannot see your data. git-annex keeps track of where each file + is stored, so it knows how many copies are available, and has many + facilities to ensure your data is preserved. + + git-annex can also be used to keep a folder in sync between computers, + noticing when files are changed, and automatically committing them + to git and transferring them to other computers. The git-annex webapp + makes it easy to set up and use git-annex this way. + </longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |