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| author |  http://olg.myid.net/ <http://olg.myid.net/@web> | 2012-11-01 23:48:17 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2012-11-01 23:48:17 +0000 |
| commit | 530c6aa3ea8920a1ec815d2cac047cca3cba24ab (patch) | |
| tree | e55a68fb6eef717566cfcd2084642af89234df4e /doc/todo | |
| parent | 6f3912350cecf2207002231d45c30a42ee8999f4 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/whishlist:_make_partial_files_available_during_transfer.mdwn b/doc/todo/whishlist:_make_partial_files_available_during_transfer.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b021c9091 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/whishlist:_make_partial_files_available_during_transfer.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Imagine this situation: +You have a laptop and a NAS. +On your laptop you want to consume a large media file located on the NAS. +So you type: + + git annex get --from nas mediafile + +But now you have to wait for the download to complete, unless either + +* rsync is pointed directly to the file in the object storage ("--inplace") +or +* the symlink temporarily points to the partial file during a transfer + +which would allow you instantaneous consumption of your media. +It might make sense to make this behavior configurable, because not everyone might agree with having partial content (that mismatches its key) around. + + +So what do you say? |