NAME

       git-annex-remotedaemon - persistent communication with remotes

SYNOPSIS

       git annex remotedaemon

DESCRIPTION

       The remotedaemon provides persistent communication with remotes.  It detects when git branches on remotes
       have changes, and fetches the changes from them.

       The assistant runs the remotedaemon and communicates with it on stdio using a simple textual protocol.

       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. 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)