From 22198bdde47c2d0d3fd1dcd7cebf78e0345cae70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://joeyh.name/" Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:19:34 +0000 Subject: Added a comment --- .../comment_1_868a380faa1e55faa3c2d314e3258e86._comment | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl/comment_1_868a380faa1e55faa3c2d314e3258e86._comment diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl/comment_1_868a380faa1e55faa3c2d314e3258e86._comment b/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl/comment_1_868a380faa1e55faa3c2d314e3258e86._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4bdf4c97b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl/comment_1_868a380faa1e55faa3c2d314e3258e86._comment @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joeyh.name/" + nickname="joey" + subject="comment 1" + date="2013-03-11T18:19:34Z" + content=""" +It does this to get the size of the url, so it can record this in the key. It would be possible to add a flag to skip that (--fast is already taken of course), but then you tend to get a lot of keys in your repository with no size info attached, which makes `git annex status` complain that it cannot tell you exactly how big your repo is, and is generally not the best. It also defeats annex.diskreserve checking, for example. + +With --fast, the size is the only info available to ensure that the content behind the url has not changed when downloading it later. I suppose for some urls you may not want that checked, and so a --relaxed type option could make sense in that use case as well, although with the above caveat. +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3