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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-05-29 15:23:05 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-05-29 15:23:05 -0400
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-I have two repos, using SHA1 backend and both using git.
-The first one is a laptop, the second one is a usb drive.
-
-When I drop a file on the laptop repo, the file is not available on that repo until I run *git annex get*
-But when the usb drive is plugged in the file is actually available.
-
-How about adding a feature to link some/all files to the remote repo?
-
-e.g.
-We have *railscasts/196-nested-model-form-part-1.mp4* file added to git, and only available on the usb drive:
-
- $ git annex whereis 196-nested-model-form-part-1.mp4
- whereis 196-nested-model-form-part-1.mp4 (1 copy)
- a7b7d7a4-2a8a-11e1-aebc-d3c589296e81 -- origin (Portable usb drive)
-
-I can see the link with:
-
- $ cd railscasts
- $ ls -ls 196*
- 8 lrwxr-xr-x 1 framallo staff 193 Dec 20 05:49 196-nested-model-form-part-1.mp4 -> ../.git/annex/objects/Wz/6P/SHA256-s16898930--43679c67cd968243f58f8f7fb30690b5f3f067574e318d609a01613a2a14351e/SHA256-s16898930--43679c67cd968243f58f8f7fb30690b5f3f067574e318d609a01613a2a14351e
-
-I save this in a variable just to make the example more clear:
-
- ID=".git/annex/objects/Wz/6P/SHA256-s16898930--43679c67cd968243f58f8f7fb30690b5f3f067574e318d609a01613a2a14351e/SHA256-s16898930--43679c67cd968243f58f8f7fb30690b5f3f067574e318d609a01613a2a14351e"
-
-The file doesn't exist on the local repo:
-
- $ ls ../$ID
- ls: ../$ID: No such file or directory
-
-however I can create a link to access that file on the remote repo.
-First I create a needed dir:
-
- $ mkdir ../.git/annex/objects/Wz/6P/SHA256-s16898930--43679c67cd968243f58f8f7fb30690b5f3f067574e318d609a01613a2a14351e/
-
-Then I link to the remote file:
-
- $ ln -s /mnt/usb_drive/repo_folder/$ID ../$ID
-
-now I can open the file in the laptop repo.
-
-
-I think it could be easy to implement. Maybe It's a naive approach, but looks apealing.
-Checking if it's a real file or a link shouldn't impact on performance.
-The limitation is that it would work only with remote repos on local dirs
-
-Also allows you to have one directory structure like AFS or other distributed FS. If the file is not local I go to the remote server.
-Which is great for apps like Picasa, Itunes, and friends that depends on the file location.
-
-> This is a duplicate of [[union_mounting]]. So closing it: [[done]].
->
-> It's a good idea, but making sure git-annex correctly handles these links in all cases is a subtle problem that has not yet been tackled. --[[Joey]]