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| author |  http://joeyh.name/ <http://joeyh.name/@web> | 2014-07-15 19:13:06 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-07-15 19:13:06 +0000 |
| commit | c3051ad7299470e55b4315075905afe6c8a6ae40 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a8ed6a74f59ba4b00d41cf196d1668b34a805a8 /doc/todo/wishlist:_do_not_import_new_files | |
| parent | 83adfab66971a3f19c32dc8959f6da0279c0742d (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_do_not_import_new_files/comment_5_4294e92e2f4efb9dd10b280f5c9843f7._comment b/doc/todo/wishlist:_do_not_import_new_files/comment_5_4294e92e2f4efb9dd10b280f5c9843f7._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e312c083d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_do_not_import_new_files/comment_5_4294e92e2f4efb9dd10b280f5c9843f7._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.2" + subject="comment 5" + date="2014-07-15T19:13:05Z" + content=""" +A fundamental problem with this idea is that git-annex's keys can use any of many checksumming backends. So, which checksum should it try? Running every possible checksum on a file is going to re-read it repeatedly and be expensive. + +`git annex import` avoids this problem by using whatever the default backend is configured to be for the filename it's importing. This is good enough to make repeated runs of `git annex import` work ok, but when we get into trying to reinject whole directory trees like this, I don't think that's good enough. +"""]] |