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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <joey@web> | 2013-05-29 16:50:35 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-05-29 16:50:35 +0000 |
| commit | b1e9076c2492b39754d6c826279d1c88653bc6c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 24313267136e9e2179a651c1626b92c6f78b183e | |
| parent | 47b783434f173cee4e787fdb8acaeb9f26513870 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Help_with_syncing_file_contents/comment_3_b26cfa20dc81517d93e760f4809bdc24._comment b/doc/forum/Help_with_syncing_file_contents/comment_3_b26cfa20dc81517d93e760f4809bdc24._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ff9902e8d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Help_with_syncing_file_contents/comment_3_b26cfa20dc81517d93e760f4809bdc24._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + nickname="joey" + subject="comment 3" + date="2013-05-29T16:50:35Z" + content=""" +Treating each version of a file as a separate object that is stored and transmitted separately is one of the core simplifying assumptions of git-annex. Amoung other things it makes it easy to have dumb special remotes that are mere key/value stores. And it keeps it easy to understand. + +I don't consider this a problem as far as storage goes. Disk space is cheap; git-annex allows dropping unused versions of files from repositories that are not on large cheap storage. + +For file transfer, it would be nice to find optimisations that don't require changing this simplifying assumption. This can be done at least for rsync I think. The [[design/assistant/deltas]] page is where the design of this is or will be worked on. +"""]] |