The Setup What do people use to get stuff done? Interviews Community About Ads Via The Deck Software developer (Debian, git-annex) Posted October 30, 2012. developer linux software I'm Joey Hess and I write programs. Lately I've been focusing on programs that encourage broader use of version control systems, like git . The goal is to harness all the power that's been developed by developers for developers for managing source code, and redirect it to other purposes. So I've built etckeeper (managing /etc with git, for sysadmins), ikiwiki (wikis and blogs in git), and git-annex (applying git to very large files). I'm funded by a Kickstarter project in 2012-2013 to build something not unlike DropBox , based on git-annex, that automatically version controls and syncs files between computers. I'm also a long-time Debian developer, having been involved in b...