Re:What's New in Mercurial 3.0
by AceJohnny2 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @07:46PM
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As I understand it, it became something to replace Dropbox after Joey realized that git-annex's task of distributed storage of large files intersected with the Dropbox use-case, but it didn't start that way, and IMHO doesn't exclude the parent's suggestion.
I backed Joey's kickstarter, but to my shame I have yet to give git-annex-assistant a spin.
It's neat, but it's more about replacing something like Dropbox than it is replacing git (despite being based on git). It also isn't particularly stable, though I have nothing but respect for the developer.