README.md



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.
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