Re: How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-27 Thread Sean Hammond
On 26.11.2013 15:51, Sean Hammond wrote: Thanks all. I'm going to try the simplest method: just run git annex assistant on both machines, drag the music dir into the annex on both machines, and let it deal with it. Some unnecessary transferring and temporary on-disk duplication should not be a

Re: How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Hammond wrote: 1. The total number of files in ~/Annex, not including .git, on A and B is different: ls -R1 ~/Annex | wc -l 21830 ls -R1 ~/Annex | wc -l 21845 2. git-annex status shows untracked and modified files on both machines (different files on each machine). These seem

Re: How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-26 Thread Sean Hammond
Thanks all. I'm going to try the simplest method: just run git annex assistant on both machines, drag the music dir into the annex on both machines, and let it deal with it. Some unnecessary transferring and temporary on-disk duplication should not be a problem. I've made a backup first, just in

Re: How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
Sean Hammond wrote: I think it worked. Git annex assistant did a lot of transferring, and when it was eventually done the number of files and size of the ~/Annex/Music dir is exactly the same on both machines, and the files look fine. The ~/Annex/.git dirs are quite big though: 640M and

Re: How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-25 Thread Sean Hammond
Thanks all. I'm going to try the simplest method: just run git annex assistant on both machines, drag the music dir into the annex on both machines, and let it deal with it. Some unnecessary transferring and temporary on-disk duplication should not be a problem. I've made a backup first, just

How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-24 Thread Sean Hammond
Hey, I have a ~/Music directory on computer A, and a ~/Music directory on computer B. They contain mostly the same files (and with the same paths). But there might be some files on A but not B, or vice-versa. And there might be some files on both but different (e.g. different id3 tags). I

Re: How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

2013-11-24 Thread Adam Spiers
On 24 November 2013 20:03, Sean Hammond snh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I have a ~/Music directory on computer A, and a ~/Music directory on computer B. They contain mostly the same files (and with the same paths). But there might be some files on A but not B, or vice-versa. And there might be