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diff --git a/doc/tips/automatically_getting_files_on_checkout.mdwn b/doc/tips/automatically_getting_files_on_checkout.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..bbb3b302e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/automatically_getting_files_on_checkout.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Normally git-annex does not retrieve file contents when checking out a +tree. In some use cases, it makes sense to always have the contents of +files available after a `git checkout` or `git update`. This can be +accomplished by installing the following as `.git/hooks/post-checkout` + + #!/bin/sh + # Uses git-annex to get all files in the specified directories + # (relative to the top of the repository) on checkout. + dirs=. + top="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" + for dir in "$dirs"; do git annex get $top/$dir"; done + +By default, all files in the whole repository will be made available. The +`dirs` setting can be configured if you only want to get files in certian +directories. |