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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-03-27 16:50:33 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-03-27 16:52:01 -0400 |
| commit | d2e0a94c5d5b14bc87b0cc7e90738235d9f975ad (patch) | |
| tree | a27b746bd3eff35bb1090f281252ed3f8ad3fe4d /doc | |
| parent | 8383afb1ec6a493fb7d3ca302be356ecc59dbc45 (diff) | |
comment & close
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diff --git a/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks.mdwn b/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks.mdwn index 1bdc62174..80d5a3d25 100644 --- a/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks.mdwn @@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ This would allow me to do stuff like this: $ find -type l -xtype l -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t ~/files_not_found Admittedly, to do this now, you just have to stage the symlinks before you fix but there may be other situations where this is useful (and I can't think of anything else you would want 'fix --force' to do).. + +> Per my comment, this is not a good idea, so [[done]] --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks/comment_1_b795d0bfa64654bf82684da961815cea._comment b/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks/comment_1_b795d0bfa64654bf82684da961815cea._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f8eb04775 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/__34__git-annex_fix__34___on_untracked__44___but_git-annexy_symlinks/comment_1_b795d0bfa64654bf82684da961815cea._comment @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-03-27T20:48:07Z" + content=""" +Currently git-annex uses git-ls-files to find the files to act on. +This would requires running git-ls-files twice, once with --others to find +the files not checked into git. + +I don't like the added complexity, the slowdown for everyone else, +etc. + +Also, I think it's very reasonable that git-annex commands do not +act on files that are not checked into git (except for git-annex add of +course). Acting on files that are not checked into git violates least +surprise. + +So, just add the file to git if you want git-annex fix to +act on it. You don't even have to commit the file, you can just +stage it in the index, and then un-stage it after git-annex is done with +it, if for some reason you don't want to check it into git. +"""]] |