From 57b0de9c40c1a8fe470a73a568b183f7268ea61e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Beaupré Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 12:25:31 -0400 Subject: turn my forum question into a tip, thanks joeyh! --- doc/tips/disabling_a_special_remote.mdwn | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/tips/disabling_a_special_remote.mdwn (limited to 'doc/tips/disabling_a_special_remote.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/tips/disabling_a_special_remote.mdwn b/doc/tips/disabling_a_special_remote.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3b80ef25c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/disabling_a_special_remote.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +In our quest to find dumb replacements for [[todo/wishlist: 'get' queue and schedule.]] (and a more complete [[git-annex-schedule]]), we have setup a cronjob that would start and stop the assistant during certain time windows, to ensure that it would not download during prime bandwidth time. + +But that isn't exactly what we're looking for: we would like the assistant to continue doing its usual thing of adding and removing files, and even syncing the git branches. Just not get/move files around. + +One way I thought of doing this was to disable a remote locally. [[git-annex-dead]] of course comes to mind, but that applies to all repositories, so it's not an option. If the remote was in git, i could just `git remote rm origin` and `git remote add origin` and be done with it, but this is the *web* remote, so it doesn't even show up in `git remote -v`. + +But this doesn't work with [[special remotes]]. Another solution is +simply to use the `remote.name.annex-ignore` configuration documented +in the main [[git-annex]] manpage. For example, to disable the web +remote, you would use: + + git config remote.web.annex-ignore false + +The result would be: + + joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git annex addurl --fast http://localhost + addurl localhost ok + (recording state in git...) + joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git config remote.web.annex-ignore true + joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git annex get localhost + get localhost (not available) + Try making some of these repositories available: + 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web + + (Note that these git remotes have annex-ignore set: web) + failed + git-annex: get: 1 failed + joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git config remote.web.annex-ignore false + joey@darkstar:~/tmp/a>git annex get localhost + get localhost (from web...) + /home/joey/tmp/a/.g 100%[=====================>] 10 --.-KB/s in 0s + ok + +The assistant (probably?) needs to be restarted for those changes to +take effect. --[[anarcat]] and [[joeyh]]. -- cgit v1.2.3