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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmTNrhkVQ26GBLaLD5-zNuEiR8syTj4mI8 <Juan@web> | 2014-11-21 13:21:07 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-11-21 13:21:07 +0000 |
| commit | 3e29c4d8549898a3aa40d34876e85333919887e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 817940da3e2d67318829e5a8052ff14df6597ec6 | |
| parent | 3a927aedd14a39d72952a6c7e4029da758a4976a (diff) | |
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/failing_to_add_an_usb_drive_made_me_lose_all_symlinks.mdwn | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/failing_to_add_an_usb_drive_made_me_lose_all_symlinks.mdwn b/doc/forum/failing_to_add_an_usb_drive_made_me_lose_all_symlinks.mdwn index 34a240d33..81c086452 100644 --- a/doc/forum/failing_to_add_an_usb_drive_made_me_lose_all_symlinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/failing_to_add_an_usb_drive_made_me_lose_all_symlinks.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ Dear all, - I had (snif!) and indirect repo with 2.7 of pdf files with filenames were manually added by me with author and title, and took years of work. I had them in a git annex repo from quite some time. Now I'm trying to sync them to an usb drive. Main repo lives in an ubuntu box with ext4 filesystem. I failed many times to do this, both on fat and exfat external drives (direct). As I was failing, I tried to to a test on the same local filesystem. So I have my main repo in /home/juan/papers and the other in /tmp/papers. While trying to sync them using the assistant, i noticed that most of the folders and symlinks from the main repo just dissapeared. I still have them in .git/annex/objects but I don't know how to recover the links. + I had (snif!) and indirect repo with 2.7 of pdf files with filenames were manually added by me with author and title, and took years of work. I had them in a git annex repo from quite some time. +Now I'm trying to sync them to an usb drive. Main repo lives in an ubuntu box with ext4 filesystem. I failed many times to do this, both on fat and exfat external drives (direct). +As I was failing, I tried to to a test on the same local filesystem. So I have my main repo in /home/juan/papers and the other in /tmp/papers. +While trying to sync them using the assistant, i noticed that most of the folders and symlinks from the main repo just dissapeared. +I still have them in .git/annex/objects but I don't know how to recover the links. I must say I'm an everyday git user, and big fan of git-annex but I'm trying to use it for six months without luck. I think I will quit after recovering the data, if possible. -- EDIT 1 - +EDIT 1 +------- After digging around a bit, I found that I had the keys, and could find out the original filename, for example: + git log --stat -S 1279 commit a6362df13d728037875320a457182acb073d08ea Author: Juan Cardelino <x@gmail.com> |