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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <http://joeyh.name/@web> | 2014-05-16 18:10:28 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-05-16 18:10:28 +0000 |
| commit | 8ad37d684a56960f3e668b1595e0729e00c29c04 (patch) | |
| tree | d2e414aac4fb7b19fdab76efeddc3b12986a3ba5 /doc/todo/read-only_removable_drives | |
| parent | e59ad63896e44d5a7a5e92b1feb64cf58ff805dc (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/read-only_removable_drives/comment_1_979455e3694ae2403134ed6fa2add2fa._comment b/doc/todo/read-only_removable_drives/comment_1_979455e3694ae2403134ed6fa2add2fa._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ac98d6845 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/read-only_removable_drives/comment_1_979455e3694ae2403134ed6fa2add2fa._comment @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="108.236.230.124" + subject="comment 1" + date="2014-05-16T18:10:28Z" + content=""" +The assistant ignores drives that it cannot write to. This is a very good heuristic to avoid listing every special device in linux, OSX, etc as possible removable drives. I don't think it makes sense for the assistant to try to handle this use case. + +Is there some problem using git-annex at the command line with a remote that is read-only? I don't see any problem in my tests. + +<pre> +joey@darkstar:~/tmp/r>git annex drop +drop foo ok +(Recording state in git...) +joey@darkstar:~/tmp/r>ls -ld ../readonly +drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 16 14:08 ../readonly/ +joey@darkstar:~/tmp/r>git annex get --from readonly +get foo (from readonly...) ok +(Recording state in git...) +</pre> +"""]] |