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+# Setting up digital media masters
+
+Digitally stored media master files
+are often relatively large,
+and are more likely used as-is than edited.
+
+We use git-annex to track such files.
+
+As an addon to git,
+some of the interaction is done through git commands,
+while some is done using git-annex-specific commands.
+
+
+### Paths
+
+You are recommended to use path suffix "annex"
+for media master projects.
+Examples:
+
+  * ~/public_annex/home-videos
+  * ~/private_annex/friends-snoring
+  * ~/shared_annex_family/xmas_photos
+
+
+## Create
+
+To turn a folder into a git repository
+(see also alternative of (cloning)[#Clone] an existing project),
+go into the folder,
+and initialize its git and git-annex databases:
+
+	git init
+	git annex init --version=7
+
+To use git-annex only for large files (git for smaller ones),
+add e.g. the following to file `.gitattributes`:
+
+	* annex.largefiles=((largerthan=100kb)and(not(mimetype=text/*)))
+	*.svg annex.largefiles=nothing
+
+Finally (save)[#Save] all content:
+
+	git annex add .
+	git commit -m "Initial commit"
+
+(final `git commit` is implied by [`git annex sync` or `git annex move`](#clone))
+
+
+## Clone
+
+To collaborate on a shared git repository,
+first create a local clone from the shared location,
+and tell git-annex to use it:
+
+	git clone git://[[!template id=githost]]/example
+	git annex init --version=7
+
+Then from time to time syncronize,
+ensuring that all content exists both locally and remotely:
+
+	git annex sync --content --all
+
+Alternatively (e.g. on slow/expensive network),
+syncronize only metadata and only with nearest clones:
+
+	git annex sync
+
+Alternatively (e.g. on small host),
+push the content to only be remote without keeping a local copy:
+
+	git annex move .
+
+
+### Publish
+
+To publish a git repository initially created locally,
+first create a new empty git and git annex publicly,
+then tell your local git where its new origin will be,
+and finally push your local git and git annex into its new public location:
+
+	ssh [[!template id=githost]] git init --bare --shared /srv/git/[[!template id=githost]]/example.git
+	ssh [[!template id=githost]] GIT_DIR=/srv/git/[[!template id=githost]]/example.git git annex init
+	git remote add origin [[!template id=githost]]:/srv/git/[[!template id=githost]]/example.git
+	git push --set-upstream origin master
+	git annex sync --content --all
+
+
+## References
+
+* [media-master][Source of this document]
+
+[media-master]: <https://source.redpill.dk/media-master>.
+  "Digital media master material"