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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/polls/what_is_preventing_me_from_using_git-annex_assistant.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/polls/what_is_preventing_me_from_using_git-annex_assistant.mdwn index 25a530838..db5f8cceb 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/polls/what_is_preventing_me_from_using_git-annex_assistant.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/polls/what_is_preventing_me_from_using_git-annex_assistant.mdwn @@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ assistant, please instead fill in this poll on behalf of less technically adept friends or family -- what's preventing you from introducing them to the assistant? -[[!poll open=yes expandable=yes 7 "I'm using the assistant!" 25 "I need a Windows port" 29 "I need an Android port" 2 "I need an IPhone port (not holding my breath)" 2 "Well, it's still in beta..." 11 "I want to, but have not had the time to try it" 5 "Just inertia. I've got this dropbox/whatever that already works.." 3 "It's too hard to install (please say why in comments)" 2 "Perceived recent increase of bug reports and thus sitting it out." 24 "Initially the lack of direct-mode. Now concerns about the safety of direct mode. Perhaps after the next release." 8 "I haven't always well understood the differences between commandline operation & the assistant, so the differences would confuse me, and I found the command line more understandable & less scary. Now trying to learn to like & trust the assistant. :)" 15 "An Ubuntu PPA would be supercool! Thanks for your great work!!" 18 "Not yet in Debian sid amd64" 4 "Waiting for Fedora/CentOS rpm repository." 2 "throttling transfers, it upsets people when I saturate the connection" 2 "partial content" 1 "Not yet available in macports" 3 "No build yet for Nokia N9" 3 "Using only git-annex webapp to config does not seem to work: Create walkthough?" 5 "No build for OSX 10.6" 4 "Needs more focus on the UI." 1 "Just inertia. I don't have a Dropbox/whatever." 4 "Replaces files with a symlink mess." 2 "configurable option to only annex files meeting certian size or filename criteria" 4 "I'm really confused about how to make it sync with a remote NON-bare repository. I'm even afraid to try `git remote add`, since there is no clear method to completely forget a git-annex remote..." 2 "A build for te raspberry pi would be supercol!" 1 "Would be nice to exclude subfolders from the gui or through a config file" 1 "I wish I had transparently encrypted git repos in the cloud available, like jgit." 1 "too many inodes used in direct mode. maybe it's possible to keep more info as git objects instead?" 2 "I need to be able to restrict in which repo dirs changes get auto-committed" 1 "Provide .deb package" 1 "Better documentation/walkthroughs on using git-annex within an existing git repo. AKA mixed use"]] +[[!poll open=yes expandable=yes 7 "I'm using the assistant!" 25 "I need a Windows port" 29 "I need an Android port" 2 "I need an IPhone port (not holding my breath)" 2 "Well, it's still in beta..." 11 "I want to, but have not had the time to try it" 5 "Just inertia. I've got this dropbox/whatever that already works.." 3 "It's too hard to install (please say why in comments)" 2 "Perceived recent increase of bug reports and thus sitting it out." 24 "Initially the lack of direct-mode. Now concerns about the safety of direct mode. Perhaps after the next release." 8 "I haven't always well understood the differences between commandline operation & the assistant, so the differences would confuse me, and I found the command line more understandable & less scary. Now trying to learn to like & trust the assistant. :)" 16 "An Ubuntu PPA would be supercool! Thanks for your great work!!" 18 "Not yet in Debian sid amd64" 4 "Waiting for Fedora/CentOS rpm repository." 2 "throttling transfers, it upsets people when I saturate the connection" 2 "partial content" 1 "Not yet available in macports" 3 "No build yet for Nokia N9" 3 "Using only git-annex webapp to config does not seem to work: Create walkthough?" 5 "No build for OSX 10.6" 4 "Needs more focus on the UI." 1 "Just inertia. I don't have a Dropbox/whatever." 4 "Replaces files with a symlink mess." 2 "configurable option to only annex files meeting certian size or filename criteria" 4 "I'm really confused about how to make it sync with a remote NON-bare repository. I'm even afraid to try `git remote add`, since there is no clear method to completely forget a git-annex remote..." 2 "A build for te raspberry pi would be supercol!" 1 "Would be nice to exclude subfolders from the gui or through a config file" 1 "I wish I had transparently encrypted git repos in the cloud available, like jgit." 1 "too many inodes used in direct mode. maybe it's possible to keep more info as git objects instead?" 2 "I need to be able to restrict in which repo dirs changes get auto-committed" 1 "Provide .deb package" 1 "Better documentation/walkthroughs on using git-annex within an existing git repo. AKA mixed use"]] Feel free to write in your own reasons, or add a comment to give me more info. diff --git a/doc/forum/Centralized_repository_with_webapp.mdwn b/doc/forum/Centralized_repository_with_webapp.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6a9fb285d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Centralized_repository_with_webapp.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Hi, + +I'm kind of new to git-annex, I've been following it for a while and tried small task, but never used it in a real situation. +I'm now trying to sync various computers through a central server and I'm having some problems, so I think I might be doing something wrong. + +I have a remote server that I want to use as central server. I use the webapp to configure client 1 to use that server as remote server and using git (so I assume it stores the files and the tree). I then create the client 2 in another computer and doing the exact same steps. +Initially everything seams to work, but after a few modifications in the clients weird things start to happen, files only in one client, some files don't get updated, etc. + +I guess I'm doing something wrong (maybe I need to clone the repo in client 2 instead of creating a new one?) but I can't figure out how to solve it. + +Any tip that could help me? + +Thanks! diff --git a/doc/forum/Managing_a_large_number_of_files_archived_on_many_pieces_of_read-only_medium___40__E.G._DVDs__41__/comment_12_9acf5ce41a023f3848a51891cceeb51b._comment b/doc/forum/Managing_a_large_number_of_files_archived_on_many_pieces_of_read-only_medium___40__E.G._DVDs__41__/comment_12_9acf5ce41a023f3848a51891cceeb51b._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..aa742361d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Managing_a_large_number_of_files_archived_on_many_pieces_of_read-only_medium___40__E.G._DVDs__41__/comment_12_9acf5ce41a023f3848a51891cceeb51b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://launchpad.net/~arand" + nickname="arand" + subject="comment 12" + date="2013-03-11T10:34:42Z" + content=""" +Without having read this, I've reported a very similar wishlist item at: +[http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/wishlist:_recursive_directory_remote_setup__47__addurl](http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/wishlist:_recursive_directory_remote_setup__47__addurl) + +combining a recursive addurl (in my case using --fast) script with the suggestions regarding symlinks here, it's somewhat workable: + + ln -s /media/cdrom /var/tmp/mycdrom123 + ~/utv/scripts/annex-importdir /var/tmp/mycdrom123 + +Ideally though, for optical media it would have a couple of more features (some already noted above): + +* Ability to form a (reasonably) unique identifier from a disc, using the label and the date of creation + * Ability for Annex to identify discs using this and ask for the correct disc if the file does not match (accomodating RW discs where label and date might change, or simply disc copies) + * Example: `not the original disc... trying anyway... file hash mismatch... please enable the remote disc with \"MYLABEL\" and creation date \"2001-01-01\"` +* Option to checksum without importing the actual objects into the annex +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Ubuntu_PPA/comment_1_b55535258b1b4bcfc802235f0cba075d._comment b/doc/forum/Ubuntu_PPA/comment_1_b55535258b1b4bcfc802235f0cba075d._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d91a0d1eb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Ubuntu_PPA/comment_1_b55535258b1b4bcfc802235f0cba075d._comment @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmeki7KlfJpAAN9CUmi9EdwhwBmIhDMYuE" + nickname="Marvin" + subject="comment 1" + date="2013-03-11T09:40:43Z" + content=""" +im also looking for a PPA with newer git-annex versions. mostly because of the glacier support... +"""]] |