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### Please describe the problem.
When cloning/syncing a repository (and probably doing some nono's in the process),
git annex will happily delete files.
This cost me several files, which just by coincidence were not totally important, still its *very* unsettling.
### What steps will reproduce the problem?
I did not try to exactly reproduce it yet (sorry, no time right now), but here is vaguley what I did (sorry its been a process spread over
several hours and i was doing lots of other things in parallel so I'm fuzzy about details):
* have a repository in direct mode on your local harddrive, say ~/myannex
* git clone ~/myannex to /usbhd/myannex, git annex init.
The usbhd is a FAT, git annex recognizes it as "crippled filessytem".
* Git annex get all from ~/myannex. So far, so good.
* create several files on ~/myannex, git annex add them
* do a git annex add on them, abort it (realizing SHA256E takes forever, so changing to WORM), repeat add
(not sure wheter i did a git annex sync here)
* create several files on /usbhd/myannex, git annex add them
(not sure wheter i did a git annex sync here again)
All repos are in direct mode.
From here on i don't remember the exact order of events, one definite -- probably important -- nono i did,
was:
I executed a git annex sync/get on the usbhd in a sub-directory (i.e. not in the git base dir), say /usbhd/myannex/foo/bar/,
so it went on creating /usbhd/myannex/foo/bar/foo, which of course was not intended.
However /usbhd/myannex/foo/bar/foo contained FAT-crippled-symlinks to the new files in ~/myannex (good).
In order to avoid a potential messy situation i just renamed /usbhd/myannex/foo to /usbhd/myannex/foo_bak
(which I just realize while writing this, saved me the hash values of my files, yay :))
However when I tried to repeat the procedure, it seems that the new files would not appear on the usbhd (for a reason i totally don't get, maybe I synced back before realizing my sub-foo mistake).
When I synced usbhd -> ~/myannex again, git-annex happily deleted my new files there which obviously quite upset me.
Again, sorry for this horribly chaotic description,
I'll try and deliver a more reproducible description, but for the next 2 weeks at least I'm too busy for that.
### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
Archlinux,
3.9.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 11 20:31:08 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
aur/git-annex-bin 4.20131002-1
### Please provide any additional information below.
[[!format sh """
# If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here.
# If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log
# End of transcript or log.
"""]]
[[!tag moreinfo]]
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