NAME

       git-annex-remotedaemon - persistent communication with remotes

SYNOPSIS

       git annex remotedaemon

DESCRIPTION

       The remotedaemon provides persistent communication with remotes.

       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,  and  fetches changes from it.  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.

OPTIONS

       --foreground

              Don't  fork  to  the  background,  and  communicate  on stdin/stdout using a simple
              textual protocol. The assistant runs the remotedaemon this way.

              Commands in the protocol include LOSTNET, which tells  the  remotedaemon  that  the
              network  connection  has  been lost, and causes it to stop any TCP connctions. That
              can be followed by RESUME when the network connection comes back up.

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-annex-assistant(1)

       git-annex-enable-tor(1)

       git-annex-p2p(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

                                                                        git-annex-remotedaemon(1)