Hello, On Sun 03 May 2020 at 08:57am +02, Marco Ricci wrote:
> I use git to keep $HOME in version control, and git-annex to version > sensitive files whose contents I do not want kept in git, e.g. `.netrc`. My > repository thus contains several dotfiles and "dotdirs". The rules for which > files are sensitive and which aren't aren't easily described as a simple > matching expression, so I leave `annex.largefiles` unset. I expect to be > able to specifically use `git add` to add files to git, and `git annex add` > to add files to the annex. > > After upgrading the repository format to v8, `git annex add` sometimes > treats ordinary files stored in a dotdir the same as it treats dotfiles – > adding them to native git and saying they are non-large files, even when > `annex.largefiles` is not configured. I am aware that dotfiles are forced to > git by default unless I set `annex.dotfiles`, but I do not expect this to > happen with non-dotfiles, even if they are located within dotdirs. So what you are suggesting is that git-annex should treat all files within dotdirs as if they were themselves dotfiles? -- Sean Whitton
