How to start syncing two existing directories with git annex?

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 want

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

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 i

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

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 c

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

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

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

Thanks for your help Joey, >> 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