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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-02-09 16:26:55 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-02-09 16:26:55 -0400
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@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ annex.merge=trydownloadfirst and annex.merge=reqdownloadfirst
Let `git annex merge` be used to force a merge, even when content is not
available.
-> I think this is the wrong solution, and [[hide_missing_files]] is a
-> better approach to the same problem. See [[design/adjusted_branches]].
->
-> Closing as dup. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
+## alternatively
+
+What about just making `git-annex sync --content` try to get the content of
+all files before updating the work tree? (The assistant would need changes
+too; it would need to queue all the downloads and trigger a work tree
+update once all the downloads have been tried.)