Hi Jan, your approach with git-annex sounds very interesting. Could you please explain it in a little more detail.
Thanks,
Patrik
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:36:06PM +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote:
> On Monday, 17 August 2015 23:24:55 CEST, john wrote:
> > I know how I've been trying to do this, and I also feel like I need
> > advice. I believe the OP means that he uses an external USB drive to
> > store his files, but does not always edit them directly on the USB
> > drive. For me, the external drive functions as a long term storage
> > device. Also, it is very awkward to leave an external USB drive
> > connected to my laptop while I am editing, so I copy a 'film roll' to a
> > local drive, edit and export, then save sidecar files back to USB. This
> > messes up my database, and I end up with a lot of skulls.
>
> What works well for me is using git-annex, with one repo ("~/photos") in my
> local (but quite small) SSD and a set of repositories on external drives,
> sshfs remotes, etc. What I find extremely useful is the combination of
> using native git features for storing the .xmp files generated by
> Darktable. Darktable only knows about ~/photos; it has no knowledge of the
> actual long-term storage locations.
>
> http://git-annex.branchable.com/
>
> One thing that could be improved is DT's integration with git-annex. Right
> now, I'm launching git-annex manually to "page in" and "page out" the RAW
> files from external media to my internal storage. Given that DT now
> supports a local cache, it would be nice to be able to replace this cache
> implementation by callouts to `git annex drop` and `git annex get` -- or
> any configurable commands, for that matter. Maybe some day I'll have time
> for this :).
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
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