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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-30 13:18:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-30 13:24:36 -0400 |
| commit | a47ed922e1302480d79f54f553532e85eebae872 (patch) | |
| tree | 16d9507bf012e329970462f1bef936626b1aac2a /doc | |
| parent | 320a4102d6dfff193fc501e53859b2b3edc397d5 (diff) | |
add Remote.Directory
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/special_remotes.mdwn | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/special_remotes/directory.mdwn | 10 |
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diff --git a/doc/special_remotes.mdwn b/doc/special_remotes.mdwn index 651b24afa..09b751d0f 100644 --- a/doc/special_remotes.mdwn +++ b/doc/special_remotes.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ types of remotes. These can be used just like any normal remote by git-annex. They cannot be used by other git commands though. * [[Amazon_S3]] +* [[directory]] diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/directory.mdwn b/doc/special_remotes/directory.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..42dbc5749 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/special_remotes/directory.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +This special remote type stores file contents in directory on the system. + +One use case for this would be if you have a removable drive, that you +cannot put a git repository on for some reason, and you want to use it +to sneakernet files between systems. Just set up both systems to use +the drive's mountpoint as a directory remote. + +Setup example: + + # git annex initremote usbdrive directory=/media/usbdrive/ |