git-annex has recently been ported to Windows!
- First, install git
- Then, install git-annex
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 gnupg. To build the git-annex installer, you also need to install the NulSoft installer system.
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.