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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawldKnauegZulM7X6JoHJs7Gd5PnDjcgx-E"
+ nickname="Matt"
+ subject="Source code"
+ date="2012-07-06T00:12:15Z"
+ content="""
+Hi Joey,
+
+Is the source code for git-annex assistant available somewhere?
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ subject="comment 2"
+ date="2012-07-06T00:21:43Z"
+ content="""
+It's in the `assistant` branch of git://git-annex.branchable.com/
+"""]]
diff --git a/doc/forum/Wishlist:_mark_remotes_offline.mdwn b/doc/forum/Wishlist:_mark_remotes_offline.mdwn
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+I have several remotes which are not always accessible. For example they can
+be on hosts only accessible by LAN or on a portable hard drive which is not
+plugged in. When running sync these remotes are checked as well, leading to
+unnecessary error messages and possibly git-annex waiting for a few minutes
+on each remote for a timeout.
+
+In this situation it would be useful to mark some remotes as offline
+(`git annex offline <remotename>`), so that git-annex would not even attempt
+to contact them. Then, I could configure my system to automatically, for example,
+mark a portable hard disk remote online when plugging it in, and offline when
+unplugging it, and similarly marking remotes offline and online depending on
+whether I have an internet connection or a connection to a specific network.
diff --git a/doc/forum/Wishlist:_mark_remotes_offline/comment_1_9e3901f0123abb66034cce95cc5a941a._comment b/doc/forum/Wishlist:_mark_remotes_offline/comment_1_9e3901f0123abb66034cce95cc5a941a._comment
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2012-07-06T13:04:07Z"
+ content="""
+You can already do this:
+
+    git config remote.foo.annex-ignore true
+
+There's no need to do anything for portable drives that are sometimes mounted and sometimes not -- git-annex will automatically avoid using repositories in directories that do not currently exist.
+
+I thought git-annex also had a way to run a command and use its exit status to control whether a repo was
+ignored or not, but it seems I never actually implemented that. It might be worth adding, although the command would necessarily run whenever git-annex is transferring data around.
+"""]]
diff --git a/doc/forum/Wishlist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn b/doc/forum/Wishlist:_options_for_syncing_meta-data_and_data.mdwn
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+Since _transfer queueing_  and syncing of data works now in the assistant branch (been playing with it), there are times when I really don't want to sync the data, I would like to just sync meta-data and manually do a _get_ on files that I would want or selectively sync data in a subtree.
+
+It would be nice to have the syncing/watch feature to have the option of syncing only *meta-data* or *meta-data and data*, I think this sort of option was already planned? It would also be nice to be able to automatically sync data for only a subtree.
+
+My use case is, I have a big stash of files somewhere at home or work, and I want to keep what I am actually using on my laptop and be able to selectively just take a subtree or a set of subtree's of files. I would not always want to suck down all the data but still have the functionally to add files and push them upstream and sync meta-data.
+
+that is...
+
+> * Site A: big master annex in a server room with lots of disk (or machines), watches a directory and syncs both data and meta-data, it should always try and pull data from all it's child repos. That way I will always have a master copy of my data somewhere, it would be even nicer if I could have clones of the annex, where each annex is on a different machine which is configured to only sync a subtree of files so I can distribute my annex across different systems and disks.
+>   * Site A: machine A: syncs Folder A
+>   * Site A: machine B: syncs Folder B
+>   * and so on with selectively syncing sites and directories
+> * Laptop: has a clone of the annex, and watches a directory, syncs meta-data as usual and only uploads files to a remote (all or a designated one) but it never downloads files automatically or it should only occur inside a selected subtree.