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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-01-01 14:01:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-01-01 15:30:54 -0400 |
| commit | a0ed8194d486066aeebd17b72795d686dbbaa774 (patch) | |
| tree | 72f8b7756d091621ed442a2d32cc811c658fddac /doc/assistant | |
| parent | 18a3a186e9cdb69ee503d961d8285a341d818c48 (diff) | |
direct mode by default in repositories created by assistant
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/assistant/release_notes.mdwn | 25 |
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diff --git a/doc/assistant/release_notes.mdwn b/doc/assistant/release_notes.mdwn index 1b39c5086..df478304f 100644 --- a/doc/assistant/release_notes.mdwn +++ b/doc/assistant/release_notes.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,28 @@ +## version 3.20130102 + +This release makes several significant improvements to the git-annex +assistant, which is still in beta. + +The main improvement is direct mode. This allows you to directly edit files +in the repository, and the assistant will automatically commit and sync +your changes. Direct mode is the default for new repositories created +by the assistant. To convert your existing repository to use direct mode, +manually run `git annex direct` inside the repository. + +The following are known limitations of this release of the git-annex +assistant: + +* If a file in a direct mode repository is modified as it's being transferred, + the old version of the file can be lost, and fsck will later complain + about a corrupt object. +* On BSD operating systems (but not on OS X), the assistant uses kqueue to + watch files. Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many + directories will run it out of the max number of open files (typically + 1024), and fail. See [[this_bug|bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]] + for a workaround. +* Also on systems with kqueue, modifications to existing files in direct + mode will not be noticed. + ## version 3.20121211 This release of the git-annex assistant (which is still in beta) |