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diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/bup/comment_14_940b778f97377e83dc16439c0c7e5b38._comment b/doc/special_remotes/bup/comment_14_940b778f97377e83dc16439c0c7e5b38._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c0d5b923 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/special_remotes/bup/comment_14_940b778f97377e83dc16439c0c7e5b38._comment @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 14""" + date="2015-08-19T18:30:16Z" + content=""" +@darkfeline, setting buprepo= causes git-annex to run bup with -r. +You can verify this by using the --debug switch. + +IIRC, bup still creates ~/.bup when used this way, but doesn't store the +contents of annexed files there. It uses it only to store some small index +files, which are also stored in the repo specified with -r. This seems +weird, but I don't think this is a bug on bup's part; it seems to +intentionally do that, using path names in ~/.bup that are constructed to +not conflict when -r is used with different repositories. +I suppose bup has a good reason to do this, though I don't know what the +reason is. + +I can blow ~/.bup away, run "bup init" to make a fresh clean ~/.bup, +and then git-annex can still get the content of files from the buprepo= +repository. So, it seems that buprepo= is working ok. +"""]] |