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diff --git a/doc/bugs/free_space_checking.mdwn b/doc/bugs/free_space_checking.mdwn index 34528a7b3..eaa3294d6 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/free_space_checking.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/free_space_checking.mdwn @@ -6,3 +6,13 @@ file around. * And, need a way to tell the size of a file before copying it from a remote, to check local disk space. + + As of annex.version 2, this metadata can be available for any type + of backend. Newly added files will always have file size metadata, + while files that used a SHA backend and were added before the upgrade + won't. + + So, need a migration process from eg SHA1 to SHA1+filesize. It will + find files that lack size info, and rename their keys to add the size + info. Users with old repos can run this on them, to get the missing + info recorded. |