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-rw-r--r--doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn18
-rw-r--r--doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn14
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant.mdwn
index 3bbd27c58..9a9e4fd9f 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant.mdwn
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Feel free to chip in with comments! --[[Joey]]
* Month 2 "shiny webapp": [[!traillink webapp]] [[!traillink progressbars]]
* Month 3 "easy setup": [[!traillink configurators]]
* Month 4 "release": [[!traillink leftovers]]; release
-* Months 5-6 "9k bonus round": [[!traillink Android]]
+* Months 5-6 "9k bonus round": [[!traillink Android]] [[!traillink partial_content]]
## not yet on the map:
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn
index e8f192748..d936d53cc 100644
--- a/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/android.mdwn
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ Porting git-annex to Android will use the Android native SDK.
A hopefully small Java app will be developed, which runs the webapp
daemon, and a web browser to display it.
-[[!toc]]
-
### programs to port
These will probably need to be bundled into the Android app, unless already
@@ -53,19 +51,3 @@ Problem:
#### crazy `LD_PRELOAD` wrapper
Need I say more? (Also, Android's linker may not even support it.)
-
-### partial content
-
-On a regular system, a reasonable simplifying assumption is that all the
-files in the folder will be synced to the system. A user might want to
-disable syncing of some subdirectories, for eg, archived files. But in
-general, things are simpler to understand and implement if all files sync.
-
-But, a phone probably cannot hold all a user's files. Indeed, it's likely
-that old files will be aggressively dropped from the phone after syncing to
-elsewhere, in order to keep enough free space on it for new files.
-
-There needs to be a way for the user to browse files not on the phone and
-request they be transferred to it. This could be done as a browser in the
-web app, or using a subdirectory full of placeholder files (not symlinks;
-see above) that start transfer of the real file when accessed.
diff --git a/doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn b/doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5572811d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/design/assistant/partial_content.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+On a regular system, a reasonable simplifying assumption is that all the
+files in the folder will be synced to the system. A user might want to
+disable syncing of some subdirectories, for eg, archived files. But in
+general, things are simpler to understand and implement if all files sync.
+
+But, an Android gadget probably cannot hold all a user's files. Indeed,
+it's likely that old files will be aggressively dropped from the Android
+after syncing to elsewhere, in order to keep enough free space on it for
+new files.
+
+There needs to be a way for the user to browse files not on the gadget and
+request they be transferred to it. This could be done as a browser in the
+web app, or using a subdirectory full of placeholder files (not symlinks;
+see [[Android]]) that start transfer of the real file when accessed.