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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ordering.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ordering.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..902cf7676 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/ordering.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +One would expect "git annex get foo bar" to first retrieve foo, and then +bar. Actually though, it will operate on them in alphabetical order +(probably). This is annoying when you wanted to 1st list the most important +files to get. Maybe you'll run out of time before all can be gotten. The +workaround of course is to run "git annex get" twice. + +This ordering comes from "git ls-files". git-annex passes it all the files +the user specified. This is a useful optimisation -- earlier it would +run "git ls-files" once per parameter, and so "git annex get *" could be +rather slow. But, it produces this ordering problem. |