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author | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-05-03 14:22:06 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-05-03 14:22:06 -0400 |
commit | f0281a12dfd1a973a2aae9d832a21b80e152d802 (patch) | |
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parent | 6a759f62bc7b5f1ee24c0b9989da8b977d796d63 (diff) |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Simple_question_about_web_remote/comment_3_984a3b05bcc6b24430210d9ae039a026._comment b/doc/forum/Simple_question_about_web_remote/comment_3_984a3b05bcc6b24430210d9ae039a026._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..93ac6c402 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Simple_question_about_web_remote/comment_3_984a3b05bcc6b24430210d9ae039a026._comment @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 3""" + date="2016-05-03T18:14:51Z" + content=""" +The checksum is not coming from the RSS feed. If you ran `git-annex +importfeed` without `--fast`, it downloaded the content and checksummed it +locally, and this checksum becomes the one it expects to have when +downloading the file again. If you ran `git annex importfeed` with `--fast`, +it doesn't get a checksum, but it does record the current size of the file +as reported by the web server. + +Either the size or the checksum changing could be what caused the +verification problem. It's possible that the web server reports a bogus +size somehow (I've seen this happen before), or the web server might +be some kind of CDN that is serving up different file contents at +different times for whatever reason. + +If you use `git rm` or commit a `rm`, then any content of the file is +retained in the git-annex repository, at least until you use `git annex +unused` to remove it. You can check out old versions of the branch and the +file content will still be there. + +If you use `git annex drop`, it drops the content from the local +repository. git-annex still knows about the file, and `git annex get` can +get the content again, perhaps by downloading it from the web again. + +Since git-annex still knows about the file even if it's removed or dropped, +`git annex importfeed` avoids re-importing such files from a rss feed. +"""]] |