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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-03-20 15:31:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-03-20 15:31:19 -0400 |
| commit | d2283777226d0e386a288ff224c71ce6ed2c1a0b (patch) | |
| tree | 1a97d2791e02ebeda676a33804234262d7b3fae5 | |
| parent | a362c46b70c45872ff8c479ba5a6716cf13cc8d8 (diff) | |
| parent | 3126dfc45e96c14a5844000a5aba6021f03ff30d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git-annex.branchable.com
4 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones.mdwn b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..756075ef9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Hi, is there any particular problem with symlinking one .git/annex to share between multiple repos? diff --git a/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_1_2b60e13e5f7b8cee56cf2ddc6c47f64d._comment b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_1_2b60e13e5f7b8cee56cf2ddc6c47f64d._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..892bc50f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_1_2b60e13e5f7b8cee56cf2ddc6c47f64d._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joey.kitenet.net/" + nickname="joey" + subject="don't do that" + date="2012-03-19T18:23:13Z" + content=""" +Suppose you do that to repos A and B. Now, in A, you `git annex drop` a file that is only present in those repositories. A checks B to make sure it still has a copy of the file. It sees the (same) file there, so assumes it's safe to drop. The file is removed from A, also removing it from B, and losing data. + +It is possible to configure A and B to mutually distrust one-another and avoid this problem, but there will be other problems too. + +Instead, git-annex supports using `cp --reflink=auto`, which on filesystems supporting Copy On Write (eg, btrfs), avoids duplicating contents when A and B are on the same filesystem. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_2_24ff2c1eb643077daa37c01644cebcd2._comment b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_2_24ff2c1eb643077daa37c01644cebcd2._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..88f495da6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_2_24ff2c1eb643077daa37c01644cebcd2._comment @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnhsaESlYphzLTzpJy5IxxGFxxctIhWYfo" + nickname="Bryon" + subject="comment 2" + date="2012-03-19T18:46:13Z" + content=""" +Ah, OK. Is there a configuration step to set this up, or is this included magic in a new enough git-annex client? +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_3_5359b8eada24d27be83214ac0ae62f23._comment b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_3_5359b8eada24d27be83214ac0ae62f23._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3e5fd1154 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Sharing_annex_with_local_clones/comment_3_5359b8eada24d27be83214ac0ae62f23._comment @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnhsaESlYphzLTzpJy5IxxGFxxctIhWYfo" + nickname="Bryon" + subject="comment 3" + date="2012-03-19T18:55:03Z" + content=""" +Nevermind, found it. (git-annex 0.08) +"""]] |