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diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/desymlink.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/desymlink.mdwn index 05f965358..ffa37399d 100644 --- a/doc/design/assistant/desymlink.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/assistant/desymlink.mdwn @@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ is converted to a real file when it becomes present. This allows just cloning one of these repositories normally, and then as the files are synced in, they become real files. * Maintain a local mapping from keys to files in the tree. This is needed - when sending/receiving keys to know what file to access. Note that a key - can map to multiple files. And that when a file is deleted or moved, the - mapping needs to be updated. + when sending/receiving/dropping keys to know what file to access. + Note that a key can map to multiple files. And that when a file is + deleted or moved, the mapping needs to be updated. * May need a reverse mapping, from files in the tree to keys? TBD (Currently, getting by looking up symlinks using `git cat-file`) (Needed to make things like `git annex drop` that want to map from the @@ -87,12 +87,6 @@ is converted to a real file when it becomes present. * kqueue does not deliver an event when an existing file is modified. This doesn't affect OSX, which uses FSEvents now, but it makes direct mode assistant not 100% on other BSD's. -* The mapping is not updated when files are deleted (or for the deletion - part of a rename). So it can contain old filenames that are no longer in - use. Code that uses the mapping has to take care to check that the - files they refer to exists, which is a good idea anyway. But, - it would be good to at some point update the mappings to remove deleted - files (fsck does this FWIW). ## done |