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diff --git a/doc/forum/sparse_git_checkouts_with_annex.mdwn b/doc/forum/sparse_git_checkouts_with_annex.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..97d2f445d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/sparse_git_checkouts_with_annex.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +I checked in my music collection into git annex (about 25000 files) and i'm really impressed by the performance of git annex (after i've done an git-repack). Now i'm also moving my movies into the same git-annex, but i have the following layout of my disk drives: + +* small raid-1 for important stuff (music, documents), which is also backupped (aka: raid) +* big bulk data store (aka: media) + +In the git-annex the following layout of files is used: + +* documents/ <- on raid +* music/ <- on raid +* videos/ <- on media + +Now i didn't simply clone the raid-annex to media, but did an sparse-checkout (possible since version 1.7.0) + +* raid: .git-annex/, documents/ and music +* media: .git-annex/, videos/ + +As you can see i have to checkout the .git-annex directory with the file-logs twice which slows down git operations. Everything else works fine until now. git-annex doesn't have any problem, that only a part of the symlinks are present, which is really great. Is there a possibility to sparse checkout the .git-annex directory also? Perhaps splitting the log files in .git-annex/ into N subfolders, corresponding to the toplevel subfolders, like this? + +Before: + + $ ls .git-annex + 00 01 02.... + +After: + + $ ls .git-annex + documents/ music/ videos/ + $ ls .git-annex/documents + 00 01 02.... + +This would make it possible to checkout only the part of the log files which i'm interested in. |