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diff --git a/doc/forum/comprehension_question__58___repository_vs._working_copy_in_direct_mode/comment_1_a6b4db0cefa439f72b97089d48dfacbd._comment b/doc/forum/comprehension_question__58___repository_vs._working_copy_in_direct_mode/comment_1_a6b4db0cefa439f72b97089d48dfacbd._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..327c05705 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/comprehension_question__58___repository_vs._working_copy_in_direct_mode/comment_1_a6b4db0cefa439f72b97089d48dfacbd._comment @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + ip="108.236.230.124" + subject="comment 1" + date="2014-07-21T19:54:15Z" + content=""" +A git repository is a `.git` directory (or `git.bare` for a bare repository). + +A working tree is the directory that contains the `.git` directory. + +That is standard git terminology; git-annex does not change this at all really. The only difference is that a file added to git-annex is in both the repository and the working tree at the same time, rather than their being 2 local copies of the file (which would need twice the disk space so not good for large files). + +`git annex sync` commits any changes to files in the working tree, and pushes those changes to other remotes. You need to pass --content to also make git-annex upload the files to other remotes. Once a remote has been pushed to, you can run `git annex merge` in it to update its working tree to reflect the pushed changes (`git annex sync` also does that merge). + +To automatically sync changes to remotes, you can run the git-annex assistant. +"""]] |