Git-annex now auto-syncing photos from my android phone to a Tor hidden SSH service I control (via @guardianproject's Orbot) #prismbreak

— Richard Annex is working great for me since 8/2012 or something... Using it a lot and the Assistant is awesome! really great software!

— Subito Git annex is great to keep all my repository synchronized while not requesting that all my pictures are present on my laptop. Thank you!

— Nicolas I discovered git-annex few months ago and it really helps me to keep my files well organized. I missed the first crowd funding campaign but would be happy to contribute to the next one

— Julien I've finally gone from either keeping hard drives from my past computers or keeping a full copy of the data, to having a proper archiving and backup system for all files I care about. I've got over 12,000 files stored on my main annex, and it's perfectly responsive.

— Jason Git-annex makes it possible for me to have lots of data. Before I started using it I had a music library and a few massive tar files, none of it properly backed up, and occasionally there would be random corruption (I still have broken mp3s which jump and stutter in places) because I would carelessly cp them from HDD to HDD. So I'd avoid actually letting data accumulate; this was inconvenient in itself. Now git-annex does everything for me.

— anonymous I'm using git-annex to consolidate all the stuff that accumulated for years on various drives I have. Music I downloaded and bought (don't wanna loose those), photos from 2003 and on, archives of school and work stuff etc. Using it for 6-7 months now, I came to trust git-annex Thanks Joey for all the great work, I really hope you can continue improving it!

— dzsino I'm a graduate student, so I write a lot. I started using git to manage my latex sources a while ago, but I didn't like gumming up my repository with a bunch of figures (large binaries). I was constantly forgetting to scp the latest versions of my figures from here to there (as I do my work on a number of different computers.) Git annex gives me a good way to version the figures and manage them with the same tool I'm using for the text.

— Matthew

I'm using git-annex to make videos, pictures and music available on all my devices (windows, android, linux). It has saved me on trips with my 2yr daughter when she's had meltdowns; I have her favorite movie ready. I quickly exceeded the free dropbox quota and git-annex has replaced the need and gives me greater confidence and control over my data. Thank you!

— Joe I have moved all my photographs to an annex running on a Ubuntu file server while doing photo editing, presenting etc. on my MacBook. The annex is great in selectively moving files between these machines for editing and presentation purposes. I started using it around Christmas season last year and added a glacier "backup" recently. My statistics: 6 repositories in total, more than 300GB (dedup'd from 380GB)

— Hendrik I sync my working machines, my home fileserver, my VPS (for file access on the go), Android devices, and even a couple of dumb MP3 players from git-annex. Best of all, I have one place to go for all of my files, and if they're not on the device at the moment I need them, they're a download away.

— Evan I've got an annex with all my DVD ISOs that's nearly 3TB alone, uses the SHA512 hash and gets split over three computers, 6 external SATA drives and 3 USB drives. If you do another fundraiser you've got my support!

— glittah I have 6+ repos, 235 GB of data; nevertheless git annex is generally pretty cooperative. I almost don't have to think about the stuff annex handles. It's really fun to install a fresh OS, clone the git annex repo, and have my entire annex directory tree available immediately.

— Andy Our 4T of data gets deduplicated to about 270G, only a couple of megs get transferred every night, and thanks to git-annex everything just works, like it should!

— Tim Thanks very much for the dev blog! I was looking forward every morning to see what's coming next, what problems you are facing and how you're planning to solve them. It is simply amazing what you've achieved in the last year and your posts gave me a lot of motivation

— David I know that my expectations in this project are a little bit high and I see how much work it was to get where we are now. Once again thank you for the excellent work done so far. I don't fear to synchronize important data with git-annex.

— Florian