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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ecc72f --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +# Handling digital media masters + +Master files - +either original sources or as close as possible - +are precious and should be carefully tracked. + +Digital media files - +e.g. photos, videos, music - +are often large and binary encoded, +which poses special challenges for their tracking. + + +## Git-annex + +Digital media masters are tracked with git and git-annex. + +Git is a version control system - +a repository for historic versions of file contents of a folder. +Git-annex is an extension to git, +better at handling large files. + +Conceptually, +git-annex tracks changes to data same as git, +but where git tracks the *contents* of files, +git-annex instead tracks file *checksums* into git, +moving aside the actual data (to an "annex") +and tracks which annex currently holds data with which checksums. + + +## References + +* [media-master][Source of this document] + +[media-master]: <https://source.redpill.dk/media-master>. + "Digital media master material" |