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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-11-18 13:51:30 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-11-18 13:51:30 -0400 |
| commit | 3eb39c1a65539206073b01c1e586d3ba31a13bed (patch) | |
| tree | 2e7d2ec034d2e07887b600377eb24f10faf6a09c /doc | |
| parent | 808e5cbd155ca661b0eb2609a867e0273aa66b22 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Git-annex_assistant:_where_are_deleted_files_and_older_versions_saved__63__/comment_5_100fc29a95923e5ef92eaf87d76bbc6f._comment b/doc/forum/Git-annex_assistant:_where_are_deleted_files_and_older_versions_saved__63__/comment_5_100fc29a95923e5ef92eaf87d76bbc6f._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c527276c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Git-annex_assistant:_where_are_deleted_files_and_older_versions_saved__63__/comment_5_100fc29a95923e5ef92eaf87d76bbc6f._comment @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 5""" + date="2015-11-18T17:35:10Z" + content=""" +All you need is a clone of the repository that is not using direct mode. +(The assistant normally sets up repositories using direct mode.) +So either stop the assistant and run "git annex direct" inside ~/annex, +or `git clone` the backup repository to a temporary location. + +In that clone, you can use regular git commands to check out past versions +of the tree. Inside such a checkout, you can use `git annex get` to get any +of the files in that checkout from your backup repository or wherever the +content of the file has been stored. + +For example, using the git-annex repository that I use to publish builds of +git-annex: + + # git clone https://downloads.kitenet.net/.git/ downloads + # cd downloads + # git log --stat git-annex/linux/current/ + (shows a whole lot of past versions of files in that directory) + (I decide I want one from a few months ago) + # git checkout 81a0d7d + HEAD is now at 81a0d7d... publishing git-annex 5.20150731 + # git annex get git-annex/linux/current/git-annex-standalone-i386.tar.gz + get git-annex/linux/current/git-annex-standalone-i386.tar.gz (from origin...) ok + +Your backup repository can be used the same way. + +Deleted and old versions of files will be retained in it, as long as the +assistant was able to send them to the backup repo in the first place +before they got deleted or modified. When direct mode is used, if you +change a file before it gets copied to the backup, its old contents are gone +for good. To avoid that and make sure that all annexed files always get +backed up, switch your ~/annex to use indirect mode. +"""]] |