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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-05-30 20:50:53 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-05-30 20:50:53 -0400
commit29b43cfa395c87f722be35fb45cfea94cd3338ea (patch)
treeea1465e73f46d26104e57da3e5cba07cbd76f43b /doc
parent7c962e76b44282175f3af188c87660ede87f35a8 (diff)
pairing
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-rw-r--r--doc/design/assistant.mdwn2
-rw-r--r--doc/design/assistant/configurators.mdwn7
-rw-r--r--doc/design/assistant/pairing.mdwn13
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant.mdwn
index 63f3c56d6..7a720a5e0 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant.mdwn
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Feel free to chip in with comments! --[[Joey]]
* Month 1 "like dropbox": [[!traillink inotify]] [[!traillink syncing]]
* Month 2 "shiny webapp": [[!traillink webapp]] [[!traillink progressbars]]
-* Month 3 "easy setup": [[!traillink configurators]]
+* Month 3 "easy setup": [[!traillink configurators]] [[!traillink pairing]]
* Month 4 "polishing": [[!traillink cloud]] [[!traillink leftovers]]
* Months 5-6 "9k bonus round": [[!traillink Android]] [[!traillink partial_content]]
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/configurators.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/configurators.mdwn
index b9e3a6632..e0e938efd 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant/configurators.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/configurators.mdwn
@@ -10,12 +10,7 @@ through setting up common use cases.
* Create a repository (run when the web app is started without a configured
repository too).
* Clone this repo to a USB drive.
-* Clone this repo to another host:
- 1. Prompt for the hostname (or do avahi local machine discovery).
- 2. Enable the two hosts to ssh to one-another and run git-annex shell.
- (A tricky problem, if ssh keys need to be added to do that.)
- 3. Push over a clone of the repository. (Using git-annex-shell?)
- 4. Start [[syncing]].
+* Clone this repo to another host. (Needs [[pairing]])
* Set up Amazon S3.
* Set up rsync remote.
* Set up encryption.
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/pairing.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/pairing.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f33c5e11d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/pairing.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+For git-annex to be able to clone its repo to another host, it'd be good to
+have some way of pairing devices.
+
+It could work like this:
+
+1. Prompt for the hostname (or do avahi local machine discovery).
+2. Enable the two hosts to ssh to one-another and run git-annex shell.
+ (A tricky problem, if ssh keys need to be added to do that.)
+3. Push over a clone of the repository. (Using git-annex-shell?)
+4. Start [[syncing]].
+
+Also look into the method used by
+<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-a-device-to-firefox-sync>