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diff --git a/doc/todo/__96__git_annex_import_--lazy__96___--_Delete_everything_that__39__s_in_the_source_directory_and_also_in_the_target_annex/comment_1_0cc16eb17151309113cec6d1cccf203d._comment b/doc/todo/__96__git_annex_import_--lazy__96___--_Delete_everything_that__39__s_in_the_source_directory_and_also_in_the_target_annex/comment_1_0cc16eb17151309113cec6d1cccf203d._comment deleted file mode 100644 index 0b4e22e7c..000000000 --- a/doc/todo/__96__git_annex_import_--lazy__96___--_Delete_everything_that__39__s_in_the_source_directory_and_also_in_the_target_annex/comment_1_0cc16eb17151309113cec6d1cccf203d._comment +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -[[!comment format=mdwn - username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U" - nickname="Richard" - subject="comment 1" - date="2013-08-06T14:22:03Z" - content=""" -To expand a bit on the use case: - -I have several migration directories which I simply moved to new systems or disks with the help of `cp -ax` or `rsync`. -As I don't _need_ the data per se and merely want to hold on to it in case I ever happen to need it again and as disk space is laughably cheap, I have a lot of duplicates. -While I can at least detect bit flips with the help of checksum lists, cleaning those duplicates of duplicated duplicates is quite some effort. -To make things worse, photos, music, videos, letter and whatnot are thrown into the same container directories. - -All in all, getting data out of those data dumps and into a clean structure is quite an effort. -`git annex import --lazy` would help with this effort as I could start with the first directory, sort stuff by hand, and annex it. -As soon as data lives in any of my annexes, I could simply run `git annex import --lazy` to get rid of all duplicates while retaining the unannexed files. -Iterating through this process a few times, I will be left with clean annexes on the one hand and stuff I can simply delete on the other hand. - -I could script all this by hand on my own machine, but I am _certain_ that others would find easy, integrated, and unit tested support for whittling down data dumps over time useful. -"""]] |