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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-05-09 13:08:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-05-09 13:08:03 -0400 |
| commit | 9a9cab30e691379e0608ee4d1e213a242a451ecb (patch) | |
| tree | 99569b725dfb08885e4fc4e530f9d88459586586 /doc/todo/Bidirectional_metadata.mdwn | |
| parent | dff1417bc037bf91c8157df334dc33637963b19a (diff) | |
| parent | c5e9ec08ee8f0e408148205637f67f30a6bca254 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git-annex.branchable.com
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Bidirectional_metadata.mdwn b/doc/todo/Bidirectional_metadata.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cdbdf614c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Bidirectional_metadata.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +In one of my annexes I will g-a-add a (e.g.) zip file, extract and g-a-add its contents and then set metadata on "each side".. + + git annex metadata -s extracted_from+=$key_for_original.zip files_from_zip/ + git annex metadata -s extracted_to+=$key_for_file1 original.zip + git annex metadata -s extracted_to+=$key_for_file2 original.zip + git annex metadata -s extracted_to+=$key_for_file3 original.zip + git annex metadata -s extracted_to+=$key_for_file4 original.zip + +This means that if the content for a file in files_from_zip/ is lost, you can easily find that it came from original.zip (which may not be lost) *or any other zip in that annex that also contains that file*. + +I was wondering if this would be worth building in? + + git annex metadata --fromto original.zip files_from_zip/ + +There are other situations this is useful (and I use), for example, when I convert an annexed file to another format, I record the "source" and "target" keys against each other. I suppose a very general name would be: + + git annex metadata --parentchild original.zip files_from_zip/ + git annex metadata --parentchild original.wav compressed.flac + git annex metadata --parentchild original.svg compressed.png + +and this would set 'parent' and 'child' metadata respectively. |