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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlc1og3PqIGudOMkFNrCCNg66vB7s-jLpc <Paul@web> | 2012-06-22 22:10:22 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2012-06-22 22:10:22 +0000 |
| commit | 3606e94336abafe2bf01de6beaa778a4d3e87cf8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f688fe2544ec274f35b13e33b774fda43f88001 | |
| parent | 264dd38c6547406041adad4fea2c603d5a146a97 (diff) | |
Added a comment: how is this different than rsync?
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diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/directory/comment_1_e8a53592adb13f7d7f212a2eb5a18a31._comment b/doc/special_remotes/directory/comment_1_e8a53592adb13f7d7f212a2eb5a18a31._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b2a041c53 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/special_remotes/directory/comment_1_e8a53592adb13f7d7f212a2eb5a18a31._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlc1og3PqIGudOMkFNrCCNg66vB7s-jLpc" + nickname="Paul" + subject="how is this different than rsync?" + date="2012-06-22T22:10:19Z" + content=""" +Thanks for this great tool! I was wondering what the differences are between using `type=directory`, `type=rsync`, or a bare git repo for directories? + +I guess I can't use just a regular repo because my USB drive is formatted as `vfat` -- which threw me for a loop the first time I heard about `git-annex` about a year ago, because I followed the walkthrough, and it didn't work as expected and gave up (now I know it was just a case of PEBKAC). It might be worth adding a note about [vfat](http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/fat_support/) to the \"Adding a remote\" section of the [walkthrough](http://git-annex.branchable.com/walkthrough/), since the unstated assumption there is that the USB drive is formatted as a filesystem that supports symlinks. + +Thanks again, my scientific data management just got a lot more sane! +"""]] |