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author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-27 14:48:59 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-27 14:48:59 -0400 |
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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough.mdwn index b49a00f19..ab0067470 100644 --- a/doc/walkthrough.mdwn +++ b/doc/walkthrough.mdwn @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Let's start by adding a USB drive as a remote. # git clone ~/annex # cd annex # git annex init "portable USB drive" - # git remote add home ~/annex + # git remote add laptop ~/annex # cd ~/annex # git remote add usbdrive /media/usb @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ This is all standard ad-hoc distributed git repository setup. The only git-annex specific part is telling it the name of the new repository created on the USB drive. -Notice that both repos are set up as remotes of the other one. This lets +Notice that both repos are set up as remotes of one another. This lets either get annexed files from the other. You'll want to do that even -if you are using a centralized bare repository. +if you are using git in a more centralized fashion. ## adding files @@ -69,17 +69,17 @@ A repository does not always have all annexed file contents available. When you need the content of a file, you can use "git annex get" to make it available. -We can use this to copy everything in the laptop's home annex to the +We can use this to copy everything in the laptop's annex to the USB drive. # cd /media/usb/annex - # git pull home master + # git pull laptop master # git annex get . - get my_cool_big_file (copying from home...) ok - get iso/debian.iso (copying from home...) ok + get my_cool_big_file (copying from laptop...) ok + get iso/debian.iso (copying from laptop...) ok -Notice that you had to git pull from home first, this lets git-annex know -what has changed in home, and so it knows about the files present there and +Notice that you had to git pull from laptop first, this lets git-annex know +what has changed in laptop, and so it knows about the files present there and can get them. ## transferring files: When things go wrong @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ it: # git annex get video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov get video/_why_hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov (not available) - I was unable to access these remotes: server + I was unable to access these remotes: usbdrive, server Try making some of these repositories available: 5863d8c0-d9a9-11df-adb2-af51e6559a49 -- my home file server 58d84e8a-d9ae-11df-a1aa-ab9aa8c00826 -- portable USB drive @@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ some other repository before dropping it. ## using ssh remotes -So far git-annex has been used with a remote repository on a USB drive. -But it can also be used with a remote that is truely remote, a host -accessed by ssh. +So far in this walkthrough, git-annex has been used with a remote +repository on a USB drive. But it can also be used with a git remote +that is truely remote, a host accessed by ssh. Say you have a desktop on the same network as your laptop and want to clone the laptop's annex to it: @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ to clone the laptop's annex to it: Now you can get files and they will be transferred by `scp`: # git annex get my_cool_big_file - get my_cool_big_file (getting UUIDs for origin...) (copying from origin...) + get my_cool_big_file (getting UUID for origin...) (copying from origin...) WORM:1285650548:2159:my_cool_big_file 100% 2159 2.1KB/s 00:00 ok @@ -174,18 +174,19 @@ access, if available. There is a annex-cost setting you can configure in Also, note that you need full shell access for this to work -- git-annex needs to be able to ssh in and run commands. -## moving file content to another repository +## moving file content between repositories Often you will want to move some file contents from a repository to some other one. For example, your laptop's disk is getting full; time to move -some files to an external disk before moving another file from home to your -laptop. Doing that by hand (by using `git annex get` and `git annex drop`) -is possible, but a bit of a pain. `git annex move` makes it very easy. +some files to an external disk before moving another file from a file +server to your laptop. Doing that by hand (by using `git annex get` and +`git annex drop`) is possible, but a bit of a pain. `git annex move` +makes it very easy. # git annex move my_cool_big_file --to usbdrive move my_cool_big_file (moving to usbdrive...) ok - # git annex move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov --from home - move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov (moving from home...) + # git annex move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov --from fileserver + move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov (moving from fileserver...) WORM:1274316523:86050597:hackity_hack_and_kax 100% 82MB 199.1KB/s 07:02 ok |