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

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.