Git annex and rsync

I started to use git-annex for my GoPro archive (atm 2TB of jpg files). But for my upload scripts to openstreetcam and mapillary I needed the files and not the symlinks git-annex is using.

rsync for the rescue.

From the rsync man page:

-L, --copy-links            transform symlink into referent file/dir

In my scripts I now use rsync -aL source target to get the files out of a git-annex repository.