From c305fb2bf318e72ea4f905a38733d93e9a81cc1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:21:11 -0400 Subject: thought --- doc/todo/branching.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/branching.mdwn b/doc/todo/branching.mdwn index c9707c6f9..b7441c6e4 100644 --- a/doc/todo/branching.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/branching.mdwn @@ -93,3 +93,15 @@ Use filenames like: That allows one repo to record another's state when doing a `move`. + +## outside the box approach + +If the problem is limited to only that the `.git-annex/` files make +branching difficult (and not to the related problem that commits to them +and having them in the tree are sorta annoying), then a simple approach +would be to have git-annex look in other branches for location log info +too. + +The problem would then be that any locationlog lookup would need to look in +all other branches (any branch could have more current info after all), +which could get expensive. -- cgit v1.2.3