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diff --git a/doc/bugs/git_mv_before_commit_breaks_symlinks.mdwn b/doc/bugs/git_mv_before_commit_breaks_symlinks.mdwn index 8692b93b6..66a199e8c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/git_mv_before_commit_breaks_symlinks.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/git_mv_before_commit_breaks_symlinks.mdwn @@ -12,3 +12,17 @@ When I `git mv` a file that I just `git annex add`-ed without having `git commit ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 5.20140529 on Debian testing + +> This is fundamentally something git-annex cannot deal with, +> because there is no way to hook into git to fix the symlink when +> `git mv` moves the file. +> +> Instead, git-annex has several "good enough" fixes for the problem: +> +> * As soon as you `git commit`, the pre-commit hook will run `git annex +> fix` and this will fix the symlink before it gets committed. +> * You can run `git annex fix` yourself after `git mv`. +> * Even `git annex add $file` will fix the symlink if the file is already +> annexed. +> +> So, [[done]] --[[Joey]] |