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authorGravatar http://edheil.wordpress.com/ <http://edheil.wordpress.com/@web>2013-01-28 01:53:43 +0000
committerGravatar admin <admin@branchable.com>2013-01-28 01:53:43 +0000
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+so git annex migrate can switch a file from using one backend to the other.
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+I've done that with a bunch of files.
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+The old files should become "unused" right? But they don't seem to be. "git annex unused" still shows me only 2 unused files, and I've just migrated dozens of files from SHA256 to SHA256E.
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+Is it possible they're still "used" by other repos? I have two other repos, one reached by SSH and one on a USB drive. Neither one of them is "bare." So maybe those files are still used by the "master" branches there, I thought... I went over and did "git annex sync" on each. Still my newly migrated files are not showing up as "unused."
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+I'm worried that my repo is going to bloat with unused files with the SHA256 backend, which mysteriously do not show up as "unused" in git annex unused, if I migrate any more.
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+any ideas what piece of the puzzle I could be missing here?
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