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author | http://cgray.myopenid.com/ <cgray@web> | 2011-11-24 01:59:45 +0000 |
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committer | admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2011-11-24 01:59:45 +0000 |
commit | 709acf3f240171fa1e3782c8e0362ff4f3239bfb (patch) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Podcast_syncing_use-case.mdwn b/doc/forum/Podcast_syncing_use-case.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b3c81cab --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Podcast_syncing_use-case.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +I've been trying to use git-annex with the following strategy. + +* Download podcasts into the annex `gpodder-downloads` +* Check the podcasts into the annex using `git annex add`. +* Copy the podcasts over to my mp3 player in the annex `usb-ariaz`. + This is a FAT-formatted mp3 player, so I have been using a bare + repository. +* Move the podcasts to a different annex called `gpodder-on-usbdisk` + to indicate that they have been successfully put on the mp3 player. +* `chmod` the files on the mp3 player to `0600` so that I can delete + them from the player when I am done listening to them. + +Then I go for a run or something and listen to a bunch of podcasts, +deleting them after I have listened to them. When I get back, I would +like to find the files that I have listened to and remove them from +the annexes that are not on the mp3 player. What I have been hoping +is that something like + + ~/gpodder-on-usbdisk $ git annex find --not --in usb-ariaz --print0 | xargs -0 git rm + ~/gpodder-on-usbdisk $ git annex unused + ~/gpodder-on-usbdisk $ git annex dropunused `seq X` + +would work. However, it appears that `git-annex find` does not +actually check to see that the file contents are present, but only +looks at the `git-annex` branch of the `usb-ariaz` repository. Since +I have not changed that with my sneaky deletions, it has no way of +knowing that the files have been deleted. + +Is there any way to do this properly? (And by properly, I don't mean +"don't delete the files". That is really the only way I have of +marking that I have listened to podcasts on this particular mp3 player.) + +I tried setting the `usb-ariaz` repository to be untrusted, but that +did not change the behavior of `git annex find`. |