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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough.mdwn index 0da11a8b3..7018a839e 100644 --- a/doc/walkthrough.mdwn +++ b/doc/walkthrough.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +A walkthrough of the basic features of git-annex. + +[[!toc]] + ## creating a repository This is very straightforward. Just tell it a description of the repository. @@ -130,3 +134,30 @@ Here you might --force it to drop `important_file` if you trust your backup. But `other.iso` looks to have never been copied to anywhere else, so if it's something you want to hold onto, you'd need to transfer it to some other repository before dropping it. + +## using other backends: manually adding a remote URL + +git-annex has multiple key-value [[backends]]. So far this walkthrough has +demonstrated the default, WORM (Write Once, Read Many) backend. + +Another handy backend is the URL backend, which can fetch file's content +from remote URLs. Here's how to set up some files in your repository +that use this backend: + + # git annex fromkey --backend=URL --key=http://www.archive.org/somefile somefile + add somefile ok + # git commit -m "added a file from the Internet Archive" + +Now you if you ask git-annex to get that file, it will download it, +and cache it locally, until you have it drop it. + + # git annex get somefile + get somefile (downloading) + #########################################################################100.0% + ok + +You can always drop files downloaded by the URL backend. It is assumed +that the URL is stable; no local backup is kept. + + # git annex drop somefile + drop somefile (ok) |