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| author |  http://edheil.wordpress.com/ <http://edheil.wordpress.com/@web> | 2013-01-28 01:53:43 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-01-28 01:53:43 +0000 |
| commit | cbe871b97b6d026e8ddfde99ab19bcd66e397887 (patch) | |
| tree | 7beadb9db9350a00b734b2cb7e4739bb3595fb07 | |
| parent | 38dcc9c2cc8302a127e59e3d7d1d07e2d93064f4 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/switching_backends.mdwn b/doc/forum/switching_backends.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dedf1ffcb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/switching_backends.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +so git annex migrate can switch a file from using one backend to the other. + +I've done that with a bunch of files. + +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. + +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." + +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. + +any ideas what piece of the puzzle I could be missing here? + |