How To Install git-annex on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-annex
on CentOS 7.
What is git-annex
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. 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. When a file is annexed, its content is moved into a key-value store, and a symlink is made that points to the content. These symlinks are checked into git and versioned like regular files. You can move them around, delete them, and so on. Pushing to another git repository will make git-annex there aware of the annexed file, and it can be used to retrieve its content from the key-value store.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install git-annex
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-annex.
Install git-annex on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install git-annex
using yum
by running the following command:
Install git-annex on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install git-annex
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall git-annex on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the git-annex
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-annex
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.