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diff --git a/doc/todo/dumb__44___unsafe__44___human-readable_backend/comment_4_bbee2fa4b4fed1c5117cc4ddb0395278._comment b/doc/todo/dumb__44___unsafe__44___human-readable_backend/comment_4_bbee2fa4b4fed1c5117cc4ddb0395278._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..845eb7f16 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/dumb__44___unsafe__44___human-readable_backend/comment_4_bbee2fa4b4fed1c5117cc4ddb0395278._comment @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="anarcat" + subject="dumb external remote implemented" + date="2016-06-23T00:34:59Z" + content=""" +so I went ahead and scratched my itch of implementing this dumb special remote. i think it would be better implemented as a backend, but i am not sure how to implement that without going deep into haskell, and it seems like a mad idea anyways, because it would need to modify the hashing structure as well (to keep the directory structure). + +the remote is a simple shell script inspired by the example script, but that does some nasty (and slow) `git log -S` stuff to find a matching file path to a given key. ideally, this would be streamlined into a git-annex command that could then be optimized, because as it is now, each call is a separate history search. + +the script is here: <http://src.anarc.at/scripts.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/git-annex-remote-dumb> + +i haven't added it to the [[special_remotes]] list yet, because maybe it warrants a separate [[tips]] page. i also do not want to introduce what can be seen as a \"bad idea\" from git-annex's integrity principles to the list of special remotes before agreement here. +"""]] |