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diff --git a/doc/todo/Speed_up___39__import_--clean-duplicates__39__.mdwn b/doc/todo/Speed_up___39__import_--clean-duplicates__39__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..34c21ab01 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Speed_up___39__import_--clean-duplicates__39__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I'm currently in the process of gutting old (some broken) git-annex's and cleaning out download directories from before I started using git-annex. + +To do this, I am running `git annex import --clean--duplicates $PATH` on the directories I want to clear out but sometimes, this takes a unnecessarily long time. + +For example, git-annex will calculate the digest for a huge file (30GB+) in $TARGET, even though there are no files in the annex of that size. + +It's a common shortcut to check for duplicate sizes first to eliminate definite non-matches really quickly. Can this be added to git-annex's `import` in some way or is this a no-go due to the constant memory constraint? |