I recall my problem was trying to understand how to sync files I already had in other directories. Things certainly were not sync'd automatically. In the walkthrough it says you need to git-add files and then git-commit them http://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/#index3h2
The ~/annex/ directory ended up with symlinks to git objects and the files themselves are nowhere to be found. I didn't know where things were/weren't sync'd already. Nothing sync'd across and the assistant just said "all done" or something similar. At one point I remeber it just containing a bunch of broken symlinks. Good job I was just testing it out, imagine if it replaced my actual files with broken symlinks.
What all this boils down to is that git-annex is not as fool-proof as the proprietary solutions claim to be and something equally Free as g-a, but less complicated, would be great.
I have. It kind-of worked but eventually corrupted my files. They all became test files with a long .git/ path in them.
The Jabber plugin doesn't work so it wasn't distributed like btsync. I had a central "server". What this mean is if computer A kicked off a sync, a node wouldn't get updated right away. The "server" doesn't automatically push to all of the clients.
It worked ok, I've tried just about ever sync solution out there. btsync is the simplest "just works" that I've found. The only problem I've found with btsync is that sometimes the mobile apps appear to be offline. But once they are woke up they'll start syncing.
btsync isn't a backup solution though, so I have bakthat backing up to Amazon Glacier.
