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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-25 20:45:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-25 20:45:50 -0400 |
| commit | 0788c12ffe9c07104ca70f4dc0636ed0f6879ad2 (patch) | |
| tree | 5211cd5abe9a4096012a74bb9f958e8eb7f94e8a | |
| parent | 0a4235e26e0bce14ee8d65de9e0480d23b87ed87 (diff) | |
improve git annex move in walkthrough
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/walkthrough.mdwn | 28 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/doc/walkthrough.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough.mdwn index c9eba0a57..15d19db2b 100644 --- a/doc/walkthrough.mdwn +++ b/doc/walkthrough.mdwn @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ USB drive. Notice that you had to git pull from home first, this lets git-annex know what has changed in home, and so it knows about the files present there and -can get them. See below for an easier way. +can get them. ## transferring files: When things go wrong @@ -137,17 +137,6 @@ But `other.iso` looks to have never been copied to anywhere else, so if it's something you want to hold onto, you'd need to transfer it to some other repository before dropping it. -## moving file content to another repository - -Often you will want to transfer some file contents from a repository to -some other one, and then drop it from the first repository. For example, -your laptop's disk is getting full; time to move some files to an external -disk. Doing that by hand is possible, but a bit of a pain. `git annex move` -makes it very easy. - - # git annex move my_cool_big_file --to usbdrive - move my_cool_big_file (to usbdrive...) ok - ## using ssh remotes So far git-annex has been used with a remote repository on a USB drive. @@ -183,6 +172,21 @@ access, if available. There is a annex-cost setting you can configure in Also, note that you need full shell access for this to work -- git-annex needs to be able to ssh in and run commands. +## moving file content to another repository + +Often you will want to move some file contents from a repository to some +other one. For example, your laptop's disk is getting full; time to move +some files to an external disk before moving another file from home to your +laptop. Doing that by hand (by using `git annex get` and `git annex drop`) +is possible, but a bit of a pain. `git annex move` makes it very easy. + + # git annex move my_cool_big_file --to usbdrive + move my_cool_big_file (copying to usbdrive...) ok + # git annex move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov --from home + move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov (copying from home...)a + WORM:1274316523:86050597:hackity_hack_and_kax 100% 82MB 199.1KB/s 07:02 + (dropping from home...) ok + ## using the URL backend git-annex has multiple key-value [[backends]]. So far this walkthrough has |