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diff --git a/doc/forum/Accessing_files_in_bare_repository/comment_1_6de649d38febd2240eb5b703da77c2d6._comment b/doc/forum/Accessing_files_in_bare_repository/comment_1_6de649d38febd2240eb5b703da77c2d6._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ec14394b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Accessing_files_in_bare_repository/comment_1_6de649d38febd2240eb5b703da77c2d6._comment @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://edheil.wordpress.com/" + ip="173.162.44.162" + subject="comment 1" + date="2013-05-08T13:40:16Z" + content=""" +Do you have git-annex available on the server from the command line? + +If so, the easiest way would probably be to clone the repo in git, and do a \"git annex init\" in it. This would give you a copy of the repo with none of the files in it. It would be tiny, just full of symlinks, no content. Then pull down copies of *only* the individual files you need using \"git annex get.\" + +Maybe set that repo to \"untrusted\" to make sure other repos don't start depending on it to store copies of files to fulfill numcopies. + +When you're done with a copy of a file, just \"git annex drop\" it again so it disappears from this skeletal repo. + +"""]] |