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diff --git a/doc/tips/Internet_Archive_via_S3.mdwn b/doc/tips/Internet_Archive_via_S3.mdwn index 20d14bdec..be802b5b2 100644 --- a/doc/tips/Internet_Archive_via_S3.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/Internet_Archive_via_S3.mdwn @@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ comply with their [terms of service](http://www.archive.org/about/terms.php). A nice added feature is that whenever git-annex sends a file to the Internet Archive, it records its url, the same as if you'd run `git annex addurl`. So any users who can clone your repository can download the files -from archive.org, without needing any login or password info. This makes -the Internet Archive a nice way to publish the large files associated with -a public git repository. +from archive.org, without needing any login or password info. +The url to the content in the Internet Archive is also displayed by +`git annex whereis`. This makes the Internet Archive a nice way to +publish the large files associated with a public git repository. ## webapp setup @@ -50,10 +51,15 @@ Then you can annex files and copy them to the remote as usual: # git annex copy photo1.jpeg --fast --to archive-panama copy (to archive-panama...) ok -Once a file has been stored on archive.org, it cannot be (easily) removed -from it. Also, git-annex whereis will tell you a public url for the file -on archive.org. (It may take a while for archive.org to make the file -publically visibile.) +It may take a while for archive.org to make files publically visible after +they've been uploaded. + +## removing files + +While files can be removed from the Internet Archive, +[derived versions](https://archive.org/help/derivatives.php) +of some files may continued to be stored there after the originals +were removed. git-annex warns about this problem. ## exporting trees @@ -63,6 +69,7 @@ are important, you can run `git annex initremote` with an additional parameter "exporttree=yes", and then use [[git-annex-export]] to publish a tree of files to the Internet Archive. -Note that the Internet Archive does not support filenames containing -whitespace and some other characters. Exporting such problem filenames will -fail; you can rename the file and re-export. +Note that the Internet Archive may not support certian characters +in filenames ([see FAQ](http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#1099)). +If exporting a filename fails due to such limitations, you would need +to rename it in your git annex repository in order to export it. |