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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-08-12 16:42:49 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-08-12 16:42:49 -0400 |
| commit | 0c25288b307aacd15de00c81d12771520ac5716d (patch) | |
| tree | 46e5fee987d325f6c24bdbac8b4c95a852836b3c /doc/todo | |
| parent | 47634cb0429ba5a436ebdab42dbfd7e811e62d48 (diff) | |
| parent | 51bc551d4d5bdf9158918ae7b642e326ab7f5a61 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git-annex.branchable.com
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diff --git a/doc/todo/Deduplicate_archive___40__i.e._zip__41___files/comment_1_619840f2337b018ff165565325cf1a61._comment b/doc/todo/Deduplicate_archive___40__i.e._zip__41___files/comment_1_619840f2337b018ff165565325cf1a61._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..19548edb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Deduplicate_archive___40__i.e._zip__41___files/comment_1_619840f2337b018ff165565325cf1a61._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="209.250.56.7" + subject="comment 1" + date="2014-08-12T19:51:38Z" + content=""" +All you need to do is unzip your zip file, and then `git annex add` or `git annex import` its contents. It will then automatically deduplicate. + +Due to the way compression works, two zip (or gz) files with identical contents but different checksums are unlikely to share many bytes in common. So git-annex cannot help with de-duplicating unless you unzip them. +"""]] |