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| -rwxr-xr-x | Build/mdwn2man | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn | 6 |
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diff --git a/Build/mdwn2man b/Build/mdwn2man index 171218db0..32c4d4ac4 100755 --- a/Build/mdwn2man +++ b/Build/mdwn2man @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ while (<>) { else { $inNAME=0; } + s/\\"/\\\\"/g; # hack for git-annex-shell's quotes around SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND print $_; } diff --git a/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn index 386fec3c8..0874c729e 100644 --- a/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/add_sftp_backend.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ A sftp backend would be nice because gpg operations could be pipelined to the network transfer, not requiring the creation of a full file to disk with gpg before the network transmission, as it happens with rsync. There should be some libraries that can handle the sftp connections and transfers. I read that even curl has support for that. + +> Another reason to build this is that sftp has a `SFTP_FXP_STAT` +> that can get disk free space information. "echo df | sftp user@host" +> exposes this, when available. Some sftp servers can be locked down +> so that the user can't run git-annex on them, so that could be the only +> way to get diskreserve working for such a remote. --[[Joey]] |