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git-annex-remotedaemon - persistent communication with remotes
git annex remotedaemon
The remotedaemon provides persistent communication with remotes. It detects when git branches on remotes have changes, and fetches the changes from them.
The assistant runs the remotedaemon and communicates with it on stdio using a simple textual protocol.
Several types of remotes are supported:
For ssh remotes, the remotedaemon tries to maintain a connection to the remote git repository, and uses git-annex-shell notifychanges to detect when the remote git repository has changed. For this to work, the git remote must have git-annex-shell(1) installed, with notifychanges support. The first version of git-annex-shell that supports it is 5.20140405.
For tor-annex remotes, the remotedaemon runs a tor hidden service, accepting connections from other nodes and serving up the contents of the repository. This is only done if you first run git annex enable-tor. Use git annex p2p to configure access to tor-annex remotes.
Note that when remote.<name>.annex-pull is set to false, the remotedaemon will avoid fetching changes from that remote.
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