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diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist__58___disable_automatic_commits.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist__58___disable_automatic_commits.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..03ed40211 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist__58___disable_automatic_commits.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +When using the [[/assistant]] on some of my repositories, I would like to +retain manual control over the granularity and contents of the commit +history. Some motivating reasons: + +* manually specified commit messages makes the history easier to follow +* make a series of minor changes to a file over a period of a few hours would result in a single commit rather than capturing intermediate incomplete edits + +* manual choice of which files to annex (based on predicted usage) could be useful, e.g. a repo might contain a 4MB PDF which you want available in *every* remote even without `git annex get`, and also some 2MB images which are only required in some remotes + +> This particular case is now catered to by the ["manual" repository group](/preferred_content/standard_groups/) +> in [[preferred content]] settings. --[[Joey]] + +Obviously this needs to be configurable at least per repository, and +ideally perhaps even per remote, since usage habits can vary from machine +to machine (e.g. I could choose to commit manually from my desktop machine +which has a nice comfy keyboard and large screen, but this would be too +much pain to do from my tiny netbook). + +In fact, this is vaguely related to [[design/assistant/partial_content]], +since the usefulness of the commit history depends on the context of the +data being manipulated, which in turn depends on which subdirectories are +being touched. So any mechanism for disabling sync per directory could +potentially be reused for disabling auto-commit per directory. + +According to Joey, it should be easy to arrange for the watcher thread not +to run, but would need some more work for the assistant to notice manual +commits in order to sync them; however the assistant already does some +crazy inotify watching of git refs, in order to detect incoming pushes, so +detecting manual commits wouldn't be a stretch. + +[[!tag design/assistant]] + +> You can do this now by pausing committing via the webapp, +> or setting `annex.autocommit=false`. +> +> The assistant probably doesn't push such commits yet. |