git-annex diagnostics

2012-03-03 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, first I just wanted to report that I have a git-annex repo that is really big and slow and that this makes me kind of unhappy. Then I realized, that it may be a good idea to add a "diagnostics" command to git-annex that will gather all informations useful for you to improve git-annex, e.g.

Re: insteadOf vcsh://

2012-03-03 Thread Adam Spiers
Hi Thomas, On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Thomas Koch wrote: > I just learned (via http://http://git.madduck.net ) about git's insteadOf > config (man git-config , search "insteadOf") and did: > > export COMMON=my.server.org:git/vcsh/ > git config --global url.${COMMON}.insteadOf vcsh:// > > and

Re: default location for git-annex, GSOC

2012-03-03 Thread Thomas Koch
Thomas Koch: > First I had git-annex repos all around in my home dir at different > locations but now I moved them all into .local/share/git-annex and made > symlinks from their original locations. Forgot one advantage: easily exclude annex-ed repos from backups. Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro __

Re: git-annex diagnostics

2012-03-03 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Koch wrote: > first I just wanted to report that I have a git-annex repo that is really big > and slow and that this makes me kind of unhappy. Then I realized, that it may > be a good idea to add a "diagnostics" command to git-annex that will gather > all informations useful for you to im

Re: insteadOf vcsh://

2012-03-03 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
you might also like even more pushInsteadOf, so that you can clone using read-only git@ protocol but push over ssh (I rely on it more than on fancy abbreviations insteadOf enables), here are the examples: [url "g...@github.com:"] pushInsteadOf = git://github.com/ [url "ssh://git.debian.org/g

Re: insteadOf vcsh://

2012-03-03 Thread Adam Spiers
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > you might also like even more pushInsteadOf, so that you can clone using > read-only git@ protocol but push over ssh What are the advantages of that approach? ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home

Re: insteadOf vcsh://

2012-03-03 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
so I could use the same mr configuration across boxes even where I do not forward my ssh key, while leaving me an opportunity to push later on happen I need that (not to mention that why to bother with ssh tunneling for pulling if straight git: is available) > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Yaros

Re: default location for git-annex, GSOC

2012-03-03 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:08, Thomas Koch wrote: > Forgot one advantage: easily exclude annex-ed repos from backups. Just exclude */.git/annex/* Richard ___ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home

Re: insteadOf vcsh://

2012-03-03 Thread Joey Hess
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > so I could use the same mr configuration across boxes even where I do > not forward my ssh key, while leaving me an opportunity to push later on > happen I need that (not to mention that why to bother with ssh tunneling > for pulling if straight git: is available) It al