git-annex has recently been ported to Windows!

This port is in an early state. While it works well enough to use git-annex, many things will not work. See windows support for current status. Note especially that git-annex always uses direct mode on Windows.

The autobuilder is not currently able to run the test suite, so testing git-annex on Windows is up to you! To check that the build of git-annex works in your Windows system, you are encouraged to run the test suite before using git-annex on real data. After installation, run git annex test. There will be a lot of output; the important thing is that it should end with "All tests ok".

autobuilds

A daily build is also available, thanks to Yury V. Zaytsev and NEST.

building it yourself

To build git-annex from source on Windows, you need to install the Haskell Platform, Mingw, and Cygwin. Use Cygwin to install gcc, rsync, git, wget, ssh, and gpg.

There is a shell script standalone/windows/build.sh that can be used to build git-annex. Note that this shell script cannot be run in Cygwin; run it with the Mingw sh.

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