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author | 2014-01-01 20:37:06 -0400 | |
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committer | 2014-01-01 20:37:06 -0400 | |
commit | 56e845cb399f1a540012620b906c506f7451f57f (patch) | |
tree | 6b53d771faa03dd7cdb17b36cbc02c2ee9d6b44f | |
parent | 15ea9728612a68f71d88bd41b4b35f346b2c7621 (diff) | |
parent | ed4aed340290228761fea126ae4dee67358985b2 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git-annex.branchable.com
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diff --git a/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol/comment_9_15c4cfe064be37cc104dcb6aa049a449._comment b/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol/comment_9_15c4cfe064be37cc104dcb6aa049a449._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cc3f7dd23 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/design/external_special_remote_protocol/comment_9_15c4cfe064be37cc104dcb6aa049a449._comment @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.227" + subject="comment 9" + date="2014-01-02T00:15:28Z" + content=""" +Tobias made some good points: + +* git-annex may not be in PATH depending on installation method +* It would in theory be bad if a special remote ran some git-annex command that used the special remote and ran some git-annex command [...]. +* git-annex would need to tell the special remote what git repo it was being used with. + +So, added GETWANTED and SETWANTED. However, if I find myself recapitulating a lot of git-annex's command-line plumbing stuff in this protocol, I will need to revisit this decision and find a better way. Particularly, I narrowly escaped an intractable dependency loop in [[!commit 8e3032df2d5c6ddf07e43de4b3bb89cb578ae048]]. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/todo/untracked_remotes/comment_3_0d07c5bc8d42f35351c11411eaca88df._comment b/doc/todo/untracked_remotes/comment_3_0d07c5bc8d42f35351c11411eaca88df._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..946eeaa6c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/untracked_remotes/comment_3_0d07c5bc8d42f35351c11411eaca88df._comment @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U" + nickname="Richard" + subject="comment 3" + date="2014-01-02T00:26:14Z" + content=""" +Regarding 1.: If two untracked repositories are talking to each other, they should not be tracked at all, so I don't see any issue there. +If an untracked repository communicates with a tracked one, the untracked one should still send updates for the tracked one when synching. +The solution might really simply be a specific untracked location log distinct from the rest. +This would even allow merging changes back into the main log if the user decides to track a repository after all. + +Regarding pushing to tracking branches: This behavior will change soon and you can override it; see the manpage for `git-config(1)` at push.default. + +Location leaks could be solved by passing `00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002` as UUID. +Using that UUID might also be the solution for all untracked repos as it's trivial to special case for this, but: +* What happens when you switch a known repo to untracked? What happens to its UUID in various logs? Maybe introduce a specific discard log which tries to get rid of all data concerning those UUIDs? +* What happens when you switch a repo from untracked to tracked? Simply generate (reactivate?) a UUID and switch all local occurences of `00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002` to the new UUID? + +`git annex drop --from publicrepo` is not allowed to take local copies into account to satisfy `numcopies`, simple as that. +IMO, this is the only valid approach, as that mirrors the global view from all other repos. +For all intents and purposes, an untracked repo does not exist. + + +The complement, a read-only repo, would also be very useful. +Such a repo would hold data, but it would never accept location data of anywhere besides itself and the web remote. + + +Richard +"""]] |