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diff --git a/doc/tips/Accessing_files_in_bare_remotes_without_git-annex.mdwn b/doc/tips/Accessing_files_in_bare_remotes_without_git-annex.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c9af79cdf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/Accessing_files_in_bare_remotes_without_git-annex.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ + +git-annex is amazing for my large files backup necessities, but I am a bit scared for the long-term possibility of accessing data, without git-annex. + +For this reason I have prepared a small Python tool that accesses the content of bare git-annex repositories. The tool retrieves the locations of a file, and the path to the file in the current annex. This works with the last v6 version of the git-annex format. + +This is motivated by the fact that in the master branch the files are stores as links to .git/annex/objects/XX/YY/KEY/KEY (as it is correct for non-bare repos), while in the bare the files are stored in annex/objecst/ZZ/WW/KEY/KEY. + +The source code is available here: <https://gist.github.com/eruffaldi/924f6b53a63dede6e59f> |