From 8680d7e00a4407b7dd313498449cf1ea276c91b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm7eqCMh_B7mxE0tnchbr0JoYu11FUAFRY" Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:59:35 +0000 Subject: Added a comment: Tracking remote copies not even stored locally / URL backend turned into a "special remote". --- ...ent_2_1f2626eca9004b31a0b7fc1a0df8027b._comment | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/backends/comment_2_1f2626eca9004b31a0b7fc1a0df8027b._comment (limited to 'doc/backends') diff --git a/doc/backends/comment_2_1f2626eca9004b31a0b7fc1a0df8027b._comment b/doc/backends/comment_2_1f2626eca9004b31a0b7fc1a0df8027b._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..030887303 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/backends/comment_2_1f2626eca9004b31a0b7fc1a0df8027b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawm7eqCMh_B7mxE0tnchbr0JoYu11FUAFRY" + nickname="Stéphane" + subject="Tracking remote copies not even stored locally / URL backend turned into a "special remote"." + date="2013-01-03T10:59:35Z" + content=""" +In case you came here looking for the URL backend. + +## The URL backend + +Several documents on the web refer to a special \"URL backend\", e.g. [Large file management with git-annex [LWN.net]](http://lwn.net/Articles/419241/). Historical content will never be updated yet it drives people to living places. + +## Why a URL backend ? + +It is interesting because you can: + +* let `git-annex` rest on the fact that some documents are available as extra copies available at any time (but from something that is not a git repository). +* track these documents like your own with all git features, which opens up some truly marvelous combinations, which this margin is too narrow to contain (Pierre d.F. wouldn't disapprove ;-). + +## How/Where now ? + +`git-annex` used to have a URL backend. It seems that the design changed into a \"special remote\" feature, not limited to the web. You can now track files available through plain directories, rsync, webdav, some cloud storage, etc, even clay tablets. For details see [[special remotes]]. + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3