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Retrieves, versions, and publishes scientific datasets with DataLad and git-annex, and captures computational provenance with datalad run, rerun, and containers-run. Use when cloning or fetching data from OpenNeuro, DANDI, datasets.datalad.org, or any DataLad dataset; when a file
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Retrieves, versions, and publishes scientific datasets with DataLad and git-annex, and captures computational provenance with datalad run, rerun, and containers-run. Use when cloning or fetching data from OpenNeuro, DANDI, datasets.datalad.org, or any DataLad dataset; when a file in a dataset reads as a broken symlink or a small pointer instead of real data; when an analysis needs a machine-readable record of how each output was produced so it can be re-executed; or when publishing a dataset to siblings such as a GitHub repository plus a storage remote. Also use to decide between DataLad and plain Git for a data-carrying repository.
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DataLad
Overview
DataLad is a data management layer over Git and git-annex. Git tracks the dataset structure, small text files, and the history. git-annex tracks the content of large files, storing each file as a key and keeping the bytes somewhere that is not necessarily the local repository.
A normal clone retrieves Git history and the top-level file listing while leaving
annexed bytes unfetched. Installed subdatasets have their own histories; a clone does not
automatically populate them. Clone cost depends on Git history and file count, not just
the data volume. Retrieve annexed bytes selectively with datalad get.
The second thing DataLad adds is provenance. datalad run executes a command and commits
the result together with a machine-readable record of the command, its inputs, and its
outputs. datalad rerun reads that record back and re-executes it. This turns "how was
this figure produced" from an archaeology problem into a command.
When to use DataLad instead of plain Git
Use DataLad when any of the following holds:
- Files are too large for Git to handle comfortably, or the total exceeds what every collaborator wants on disk.
- Data lives in more than one place (a lab server, a cluster scratch, S3, a supercomputer) and you need to know which copies exist.
- The analysis must be re-executable, and a plain commit message is not enough evidence.
- You are consuming published datasets from OpenNeuro, DANDI, or
datasets.datalad.org, which are distributed as DataLad datasets. - The project nests other datasets inside it and you want each one to keep its own independent history.
Use plain Git when the repository is code and text only, everything fits comfortably in Git, and nobody needs partial checkouts. DataLad on top of a small pure-code repository adds indirection without buying anything.
Installation
# git-annex is NOT written in Python but is available from PyPI if you already
# have git itself installed:
uv pip install git-annex
# You can also install it first from the system
# (Debian/Ubuntu: apt install git-annex; macOS: brew install git-annex;
# conda-forge: conda install -c conda-forge git-annex)
uv pip install "datalad==1.6.5"
uv pip install "datalad-container==1.2.6" # only for containers-run
datalad wtf --section dependencies # confirm git-annex version is visible
The PyPI git-annex package supplies platform-specific binaries. The reviewed
10.20260901.post1 wheels cover Linux glibc 2.34+ (x86_64/ARM64), macOS ARM64 14+ and
x86_64 15+, and Windows x86_64. Use a system package when no wheel matches. Keep its
environment on PATH and verify the executable; the wheel does not supply Git itself.
Configure Git author name/email before creating or saving a dataset.
datalad wtf prints the resolved environment and is the first thing to run when behaviour
looks impossible. An old or missing git-annex is behind a large share of confusing errors.
DataLad is MIT licensed; git-annex has a separate AGPL license. Consult the upstream license when redistributing either tool.
The failure that bites first: pointers are not data
After datalad clone, annexed files exist as symlinks into .git/annex/objects/ (or as
small pointer files where symlinks are unavailable, such as on Windows or a crippled
filesystem). Nothing has downloaded the content yet.
Illustrative remote-data example; inspect the selected revision for the exact path and install NiBabel before the Python read. The refresh tested equivalent local pointer/get behavior without downloading imaging data.
datalad clone https://github.com/OpenNeuroDatasets/ds000001.git
cd ds000001
ls sub-01/anat/ # the file is listed
python -c "import nibabel; nibabel.load('sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz')" # fails
datalad get sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz # now it works
The failure mode to recognise: a tool reports the file as empty, truncated, corrupt, "not
a gzip file", or a broken symlink, and the file size on disk is a few hundred bytes. These symptoms can indicate an unfetched annex pointer; confirm with annex status
before diagnosing corruption. Run datalad get before reading data, and treat
"file exists" as insufficient evidence that its content is present.
Before an analysis touches a directory, fetch it explicitly:
datalad get sub-01/ # everything under a path
datalad get -r . # everything, including subdatasets
datalad get -n -r . # subdataset structure only, no file content
datalad status --annex availability checks which content is present locally, and
git annex whereis <path> reports which repositories hold a given file. whereis reads
recorded state and does not contact the remotes, so it tells you what git-annex last
learned rather than what is true right now.
See data-access.md for finding datasets, subdataset behaviour, dropping content safely, and repairing a dataset.
Recording provenance with datalad run
datalad run is the reason to reach for DataLad in a methods context. It saves the
command alongside its effect, in the same commit:
Illustrative FSL example (requires bet and an existing derivatives/ directory):
datalad run -m "extract brain and mask" \
--input "sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain_mask.nii.gz" \
"bet {inputs[0]} {outputs[0]} -m"
What each part does, and why skipping it hurts:
--inputretrieves the content before running, so the command does not fail on a pointer. It also records the dependency, which is what letsrerunfetch the same inputs on a different machine.--outputunlocks or removes the target first, so git-annex does not refuse to write over content it is protecting. Without it, a second run of the same command commonly fails with a permission error on an annexed file that looks read-only.{inputs}and{outputs}expand to those values.{pwd},{dspath}, and{tmpdir}are also available, and{inputs[0]}indexes individual entries.- The commit message carries a JSON run record between
=== Do not change lines below ===and^^^ Do not change lines above ^^^. Do not hand-edit that block;rerunparses it.
datalad run refuses to start when the dataset has unsaved modifications, because an
unclean starting state makes the record unreliable. Save or discard first, or pass
--explicit to save only declared outputs. This does not capture unsaved input changes;
save all dependencies before claiming the run is reproducible. Check a
command before committing to it with --dry-run basic or --dry-run command.
A run that changes nothing produces no commit, exactly as datalad save does.
run records the command and dataset state; it does not freeze arbitrary host-installed software or external services. Version an environment lockfile and scripts as declared inputs, or use a tracked container image with containers-run. Record random seeds and relevant runtime settings, then test rerun from a fresh environment before claiming computational reproducibility.
Re-executing
datalad rerun # redo the run recorded at HEAD
datalad rerun --report # show what would be done, change nothing
datalad rerun --script recompute.sh # extract the commands instead of running them
datalad rerun --since <commit> -b check <revision> # replay a range onto a new branch
--report only inspects the plan; it does not execute or validate the result. A branch
(-b) preserves the original commits, but uses the same worktree. See the reference for
a --since/--onto replay that starts before the first run, and compare annex keys or
content checksums as well as scientific outputs.
Containers
With the datalad-container extension, register an image once and every subsequent run
records which image produced the outputs:
Illustrative container workflow using a previously built local SIF image (not executed in this refresh; the runtime and image must be available):
datalad containers-add fsl --url /path/to/fsl.sif \
--call-fmt 'apptainer exec {img} {cmd}'
datalad containers-run -n fsl -m "brain and mask in container" \
--input "sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain_mask.nii.gz" \
"bet {inputs[0]} {outputs[0]} -m"
The image itself is tracked in the dataset, so the software environment travels with the
data and the provenance record rather than living in someone's shell history. When only
one container is configured, -n may be omitted.
See provenance.md for the STAMPED principles and the YODA
project layout, the run record format, --explicit and --assume-ready semantics, and
exporting provenance toward W3C PROV.
Saving and inspecting changes
datalad status # what changed, including subdataset state
datalad save -m "add QC report" path/to/file
datalad save -m "checkpoint" -r # recurse into subdatasets
datalad save -m "small text file" --to-git notes.md
datalad save decides per file whether content goes to Git or to git-annex, following the
dataset's .gitattributes. Force a file into Git with --to-git, which is the right call
for code and small text files that should stay directly readable. The yoda procedure
(datalad create -c yoda) sets this up for code/, README.md, and CHANGELOG.md
automatically.
Creating a dataset
datalad create my_dataset # plain dataset
datalad create -c yoda my_analysis # analysis layout (code/ tracked in Git,
# README.md and CHANGELOG.md preconfigured)
datalad create -d . inputs/raw # register a new subdataset under an existing one
-c yoda applies the analysis project layout described in
provenance.md. -d . is what registers a new dataset as a
subdataset of the parent rather than leaving an unrelated repository inside it.
Publishing
A DataLad dataset is usually published to two places at once: a Git hosting service for the history, and a storage remote for the annexed content.
Illustrative authenticated publication (creates remote resources; requires a GitHub
token and S3 credentials). Use myorg/mydataset only for an organization namespace.
datalad create-sibling-github mydataset
git annex initremote store type=S3 bucket=my-bucket protocol=https \
encryption=none autoenable=true
datalad siblings configure -s github --publish-depends store
datalad push --to github
The Git sibling and the sto
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name: datalad description: Retrieves, versions, and publishes scientific datasets with DataLad and git-annex, and captures computational provenance with datalad run, rerun, and containers-run. Use when cloning or fetching data from OpenNeuro, DANDI, datasets.datalad.org, or any DataLad dataset; when a file in a dataset reads as a broken symlink or a small pointer instead of real data; when an analysis needs a machine-readable record of how each output was produced so it can be re-executed; or when publishing a dataset to siblings such as a GitHub repository plus a storage remote. Also use to decide between DataLad and plain Git for a data-carrying repository. compatibility: Requires Python 3.10+, DataLad 1.6.5, Git, and git-annex 10.x. Tested with git-annex 10.20260901 and datalad-container 1.2.6 on macOS ARM64. Containers additionally require Singularity, Apptainer, or Docker. Remote data access needs network access and may need provider credentials. Local filesystem workflows work offline. license: MIT allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash metadata: version: "1.2" last-reviewed: "2026-09-30" skill-author: Dylan Pulver
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name: datalad
description: Retrieves, versions, and publishes scientific datasets with DataLad and git-annex, and captures computational provenance with datalad run, rerun, and containers-run. Use when cloning or fetching data from OpenNeuro, DANDI, datasets.datalad.org, or any DataLad dataset; when a file in a dataset reads as a broken symlink or a small pointer instead of real data; when an analysis needs a machine-readable record of how each output was produced so it can be re-executed; or when publishing a dataset to siblings such as a GitHub repository plus a storage remote. Also use to decide between DataLad and plain Git for a data-carrying repository.
compatibility: Requires Python 3.10+, DataLad 1.6.5, Git, and git-annex 10.x. Tested with git-annex 10.20260901 and datalad-container 1.2.6 on macOS ARM64. Containers additionally require Singularity, Apptainer, or Docker. Remote data access needs network access and may need provider credentials. Local filesystem workflows work offline.
license: MIT
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash
metadata:
version: "1.2"
last-reviewed: "2026-09-30"
skill-author: Dylan Pulver
---
# DataLad
## Overview
DataLad is a data management layer over Git and git-annex. Git tracks the dataset
structure, small text files, and the history. git-annex tracks the *content* of large
files, storing each file as a key and keeping the bytes somewhere that is not necessarily
the local repository.
A normal clone retrieves Git history and the top-level file listing while leaving
annexed bytes unfetched. Installed subdatasets have their own histories; a clone does not
automatically populate them. Clone cost depends on Git history and file count, not just
the data volume. Retrieve annexed bytes selectively with `datalad get`.
The second thing DataLad adds is provenance. `datalad run` executes a command and commits
the result together with a machine-readable record of the command, its inputs, and its
outputs. `datalad rerun` reads that record back and re-executes it. This turns "how was
this figure produced" from an archaeology problem into a command.
## When to use DataLad instead of plain Git
Use DataLad when any of the following holds:
- Files are too large for Git to handle comfortably, or the total exceeds what every
collaborator wants on disk.
- Data lives in more than one place (a lab server, a cluster scratch, S3, a supercomputer)
and you need to know which copies exist.
- The analysis must be re-executable, and a plain commit message is not enough evidence.
- You are consuming published datasets from OpenNeuro, DANDI, or `datasets.datalad.org`,
which are distributed as DataLad datasets.
- The project nests other datasets inside it and you want each one to keep its own
independent history.
Use plain Git when the repository is code and text only, everything fits comfortably in
Git, and nobody needs partial checkouts. DataLad on top of a small pure-code repository
adds indirection without buying anything.
## Installation
```bash
# git-annex is NOT written in Python but is available from PyPI if you already
# have git itself installed:
uv pip install git-annex
# You can also install it first from the system
# (Debian/Ubuntu: apt install git-annex; macOS: brew install git-annex;
# conda-forge: conda install -c conda-forge git-annex)
uv pip install "datalad==1.6.5"
uv pip install "datalad-container==1.2.6" # only for containers-run
datalad wtf --section dependencies # confirm git-annex version is visible
```
The PyPI `git-annex` package supplies platform-specific binaries. The reviewed
10.20260901.post1 wheels cover Linux glibc 2.34+ (x86_64/ARM64), macOS ARM64 14+ and
x86_64 15+, and Windows x86_64. Use a system package when no wheel matches. Keep its
environment on `PATH` and verify the executable; the wheel does not supply Git itself.
Configure Git author name/email before creating or saving a dataset.
`datalad wtf` prints the resolved environment and is the first thing to run when behaviour
looks impossible. An old or missing git-annex is behind a large share of confusing errors.
DataLad is MIT licensed; git-annex has a separate AGPL license. Consult the upstream
license when redistributing either tool.
## The failure that bites first: pointers are not data
After `datalad clone`, annexed files exist as symlinks into `.git/annex/objects/` (or as
small pointer files where symlinks are unavailable, such as on Windows or a crippled
filesystem). Nothing has downloaded the content yet.
Illustrative remote-data example; inspect the selected revision for the exact path and
install NiBabel before the Python read. The refresh tested equivalent local pointer/get
behavior without downloading imaging data.
```bash
datalad clone https://github.com/OpenNeuroDatasets/ds000001.git
cd ds000001
ls sub-01/anat/ # the file is listed
python -c "import nibabel; nibabel.load('sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz')" # fails
datalad get sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz # now it works
```
The failure mode to recognise: a tool reports the file as empty, truncated, corrupt, "not
a gzip file", or a broken symlink, and the file size on disk is a few hundred bytes. These symptoms can indicate an unfetched annex pointer; confirm with annex status
before diagnosing corruption. **Run `datalad get` before reading data, and treat
"file exists" as insufficient evidence that its content is present.**
Before an analysis touches a directory, fetch it explicitly:
```bash
datalad get sub-01/ # everything under a path
datalad get -r . # everything, including subdatasets
datalad get -n -r . # subdataset structure only, no file content
```
`datalad status --annex availability` checks which content is present locally, and
`git annex whereis <path>` reports which repositories hold a given file. `whereis` reads
recorded state and does not contact the remotes, so it tells you what git-annex last
learned rather than what is true right now.
See [data-access.md](references/data-access.md) for finding datasets, subdataset
behaviour, dropping content safely, and repairing a dataset.
## Recording provenance with datalad run
`datalad run` is the reason to reach for DataLad in a methods context. It saves the
command alongside its effect, in the same commit:
Illustrative FSL example (requires `bet` and an existing `derivatives/` directory):
```bash
datalad run -m "extract brain and mask" \
--input "sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain_mask.nii.gz" \
"bet {inputs[0]} {outputs[0]} -m"
```
What each part does, and why skipping it hurts:
- `--input` retrieves the content before running, so the command does not fail on a
pointer. It also records the dependency, which is what lets `rerun` fetch the same
inputs on a different machine.
- `--output` unlocks or removes the target first, so git-annex does not refuse to write
over content it is protecting. Without it, a second run of the same command commonly
fails with a permission error on an annexed file that looks read-only.
- `{inputs}` and `{outputs}` expand to those values. `{pwd}`, `{dspath}`, and `{tmpdir}`
are also available, and `{inputs[0]}` indexes individual entries.
- The commit message carries a JSON run record between `=== Do not change lines below ===`
and `^^^ Do not change lines above ^^^`. Do not hand-edit that block; `rerun` parses it.
`datalad run` refuses to start when the dataset has unsaved modifications, because an
unclean starting state makes the record unreliable. Save or discard first, or pass
`--explicit` to save only declared outputs. This does not capture unsaved input changes;
save all dependencies before claiming the run is reproducible. Check a
command before committing to it with `--dry-run basic` or `--dry-run command`.
A run that changes nothing produces no commit, exactly as `datalad save` does.
`run` records the command and dataset state; it does not freeze arbitrary host-installed software or external services. Version an environment lockfile and scripts as declared inputs, or use a tracked container image with `containers-run`. Record random seeds and relevant runtime settings, then test `rerun` from a fresh environment before claiming computational reproducibility.
### Re-executing
```bash
datalad rerun # redo the run recorded at HEAD
datalad rerun --report # show what would be done, change nothing
datalad rerun --script recompute.sh # extract the commands instead of running them
datalad rerun --since <commit> -b check <revision> # replay a range onto a new branch
```
`--report` only inspects the plan; it does not execute or validate the result. A branch
(`-b`) preserves the original commits, but uses the same worktree. See the reference for
a `--since`/`--onto` replay that starts before the first run, and compare annex keys or
content checksums as well as scientific outputs.
### Containers
With the `datalad-container` extension, register an image once and every subsequent run
records which image produced the outputs:
Illustrative container workflow using a previously built local SIF image (not executed
in this refresh; the runtime and image must be available):
```bash
datalad containers-add fsl --url /path/to/fsl.sif \
--call-fmt 'apptainer exec {img} {cmd}'
datalad containers-run -n fsl -m "brain and mask in container" \
--input "sub-01/anat/sub-01_T1w.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain.nii.gz" \
--output "derivatives/sub-01_brain_mask.nii.gz" \
"bet {inputs[0]} {outputs[0]} -m"
```
The image itself is tracked in the dataset, so the software environment travels with the
data and the provenance record rather than living in someone's shell history. When only
one container is configured, `-n` may be omitted.
See [provenance.md](references/provenance.md) for the STAMPED principles and the YODA
project layout, the run record format, `--explicit` and `--assume-ready` semantics, and
exporting provenance toward W3C PROV.
## Saving and inspecting changes
```bash
datalad status # what changed, including subdataset state
datalad save -m "add QC report" path/to/file
datalad save -m "checkpoint" -r # recurse into subdatasets
datalad save -m "small text file" --to-git notes.md
```
`datalad save` decides per file whether content goes to Git or to git-annex, following the
dataset's `.gitattributes`. Force a file into Git with `--to-git`, which is the right call
for code and small text files that should stay directly readable. The `yoda` procedure
(`datalad create -c yoda`) sets this up for `code/`, `README.md`, and `CHANGELOG.md`
automatically.
## Creating a dataset
```bash
datalad create my_dataset # plain dataset
datalad create -c yoda my_analysis # analysis layout (code/ tracked in Git,
# README.md and CHANGELOG.md preconfigured)
datalad create -d . inputs/raw # register a new subdataset under an existing one
```
`-c yoda` applies the analysis project layout described in
[provenance.md](references/provenance.md). `-d .` is what registers a new dataset as a
subdataset of the parent rather than leaving an unrelated repository inside it.
## Publishing
A DataLad dataset is usually published to two places at once: a Git hosting service for
the history, and a storage remote for the annexed content.
Illustrative authenticated publication (creates remote resources; requires a GitHub
token and S3 credentials). Use `myorg/mydataset` only for an organization namespace.
```bash
datalad create-sibling-github mydataset
git annex initremote store type=S3 bucket=my-bucket protocol=https \
encryption=none autoenable=true
datalad siblings configure -s github --publish-depends store
datalad push --to github
```
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