git-annex-backends(1)

💖 git-annex-backends 💖

okay bestie, gather round — this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about the backends that make git-annex go brrr. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

git-annex-backends — key/value backends for git-annex 🎀

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So like. The "backend" in git-annex is literally the thing that controls how a key gets generated from a file's content and/or its filesystem metadata. 💅

Most backends are just different kinds of hashes. That's it, that's the vibe. 🔥

And here's the slay part: a single repository can use different backends for different files. No cap. 👑

Wanna see the list of backends that are actually available to you? Run git-annex version, bestie, it's right there. 🫶

For even more deets (and I mean the deep lore), go look at:

https://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• git-annex(1) — the main character, fr fr ✨

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> — an absolute icon, we stan 🌈

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

okay that's the whole page, no notes, it's giving short and iconic 🎀

signing off as git-annex-backends(1) — that's the source/version stamp and the date vibe all rolled into one, mwah 💋✨