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diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_274__concurrent_annex_state/comment_1_7414fc0dde7a1d1ee456f8eba0b0c2a9._comment b/doc/devblog/day_274__concurrent_annex_state/comment_1_7414fc0dde7a1d1ee456f8eba0b0c2a9._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b4e2eeef8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_274__concurrent_annex_state/comment_1_7414fc0dde7a1d1ee456f8eba0b0c2a9._comment @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat" + subject="comment 1" + date="2015-04-10T21:33:02Z" + content=""" +great news! + +one thing i've been wondering after fooling around with the git-annex branch outside of git-annex is why git-annex talks with the commandline git client at all? libgit, for example, seem to access the .git objects directly without a dependency on the git commandline... there doesn't seem to be any haskell shims for libgit, but it seems to me it would reduce the overhead of a bunch of stuff in git-annex... + +as an aside, any thoughts of making the [git-annex-specific git library](http://source.git-annex.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=tree;f=Git;hb=HEAD) portable and standalone? maybe in collaboration with the existing [hs-libgit](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/libgit)? +"""]] diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_274__concurrent_annex_state/comment_2_4ca498ee4b4aaac8ee6dbc2c769dbad7._comment b/doc/devblog/day_274__concurrent_annex_state/comment_2_4ca498ee4b4aaac8ee6dbc2c769dbad7._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e8629e532 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_274__concurrent_annex_state/comment_2_4ca498ee4b4aaac8ee6dbc2c769dbad7._comment @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 2""" + date="2015-04-11T14:41:47Z" + content=""" +Josh Tripplet has some haskell bindings for libgit2 somewhere. +My reasons for not using it so far include: + +* ABI stability; at least it used to have none. soname is 21 already.. +* Josh told me parts of it are much less optimised than git. + (This was several years ago, but I still imagine the git code base + has much more work on speed.) +* It's not even been in a stable release of Debian yet. +* Adding a C library dependency will make git-annex much harder for + users to get started building. +* The couple of things that I could really use a git library for, like + index file access and catting object contents, could be implemented + just as well (and likely as fast) in pure haskell + code, and would not be particularly hard to do either. There may even + be suitable pure haskell libraries for them; haven't checked. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_275-276__mostly_Windows.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_275-276__mostly_Windows.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4b5a066e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_275-276__mostly_Windows.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Mostly working on Windows recently. Fixed handling of git +repos on different drive letters. Fixed crazy start menu loop. Worked around +stange msysgit version problem. + +Added one nice new feature yesterday: `git annex info $dir` now includes a +table of repositories that are storing files in the directory, with their +sizes. + + repositories containing these files: + 288.98 MB: ca9c5d52-f03a-11df-ac14-6b772ffe59f9 -- archive-5 + 288.98 MB: f1c0ce8d-d848-4d21-988c-dd78eed172e8 -- archive-8 + 10.48 MB: 587b9ccf-4548-4d6f-9765-27faecc4105f -- darkstar + 15.18 kB: 42d47daa-45fd-11e0-9827-9f142c1630b3 -- origin + +Nice thing about this feature is it's done for free, with no extra work other +than a little bit of addition. All the heavy location lookup work was already +being done to get the numcopies stats. |