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diff --git a/doc/forum/Git_Annex_Sync_Delinks_Files.mdwn b/doc/forum/Git_Annex_Sync_Delinks_Files.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1ce18dd0b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Git_Annex_Sync_Delinks_Files.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +So, I'm using git-annex to manage a group of external hard drives that I use to store a bunch of big files. + +When syncing tonight, though, it decided to take a whole subdirectory and replace the symlinks with the content directly when merging, or something. + +The remote side is not like that, and I didn't tell it to do anything like that. +It just seems to feel like that's the thing to do, then it syncs and fails because suddenly git has many gigs of objects, which is what git-annex is supposed to solve. + +I've reset master a bunch of times, and it keeps choosing that path, but I don't know why. +I've also reset master and synced/master a few times. I'm not fully sure what that one actually encodes, so I didn't want to touch it too much, but setting it to the same thing as master didn't seem to fix things either. + +Any idea why? |