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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Switching_from_indirect_mode_to_direct_mode_breaks_duplicates.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Switching_from_indirect_mode_to_direct_mode_breaks_duplicates.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 55d2b13b9..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/Switching_from_indirect_mode_to_direct_mode_breaks_duplicates.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -#What steps will reproduce the problem? - -1. Create a new repository in indirect mode. - -2. Add the same file twice under a different name. Now you have two symlinks pointing to the same file under .git/annex/objects/ - -3. Switch to direct mode. The first symlink gets replaced by the actual file. The second stays unchanged, pointing to nowhere. But git annex whereis still reports it has a copy. - -4. Delete the first file. Git annex whereis still thinks it has a copy of file 2, which is not true -> data loss. - -#What is the expected output? What do you see instead? - -When switching to direct mode, both symlinks should be replaced by a copy (or at least a hardlink) of the actual file. - -> The typo that caused this bug is fixed. --[[Joey]] - -#What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? - -3.20130107 on Arch Linux x64 - -#Please provide any additional information below. - -The deduplication performed by git-annex is very dangerous in itself -because files with identical content become replaced by references to the -same file without the user necessarily being aware. Think of the user -making a copy of a file, than modifying it. He would expect to end up with -two files, the unchanged original and the modified copy. But what he really -gets is two symlinks pointing to the same modified file. - -> I agree, it now copies rather than hard linking. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |