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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-25 11:47:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-25 11:47:45 -0400 |
| commit | 81f71e57b9ac68b8d79c30fb27a22c5e3941fcee (patch) | |
| tree | 69b2f391f34a47651955d7ad2506edb35dd30618 /doc/todo/symlink_farming_commit_hook.mdwn | |
| parent | fed1d3c1f534e01414292cd99724e15f5b19cda7 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/symlink_farming_commit_hook.mdwn b/doc/todo/symlink_farming_commit_hook.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..af03beb70 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/symlink_farming_commit_hook.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +TODO: implement below + +git-annex does use a lot of symlinks. Specicially, relative symlinks, +that are checked into git. To allow you to move those around without +annoyance, git-annex can run as a post-commit hook. This way, you can `git mv` +a symlink to an annexed file, and as soon as you commit, it will be fixed +up. + +`git annex init` tries to set up a post-commit hook that is itself a symlink +back to git-annex. If you want to have your own shell script in the post-commit +hook, just make it call `git annex` with no parameters. git-annex will detect +when it's run from a git hook and do the necessary fixups. |