Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
I've now released git-annex. The changelog from the prerelease version I posted about here before follows. Thanks for your interest! * Can scp annexed files from remote hosts, and check remote hosts for file content when dropping files. * New move subcommand, that makes it easy to move fil

Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > one issue I have discovered which seems to complicate such use case: > git-annex seems to not track the content to any degree assuming > that those data files are really immutable. Although it is not > common, our data files might change, and it seems there is no way in

Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > Yes, I think so. The key-value backend could be used to get those files > from a centralized place, too, rather than from other git-annex > repositories. For example, the URL backend could be used to pull them > from a web server on the intranet. yeah -- it

Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > does it also mean, that in the case of a separate branch, I could use > 'annexed' repository alongside with a regular GIT repository at the same > location which would contain the development tree with large files > moved under annex control? You do not need a separate

Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-20 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > The storage of the logs may eventually go to a separate branch and be > always committed automatically. There are some performance issues with > including all the logs in the main tree, and some annoyance factor, > especially if you try to switch branches in

Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > lovely, finally I can get everything back > > git annex get my_last_10_years_of_my_life_back.happiness > I was unable to access these remotes: girls > ... hah! (what are their uuids? :P) > oops > > ;) so, I followed the walkthrough and isn't there "git commit"

Re: [announce] git-annex

2010-10-19 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
lovely, finally I can get everything back git annex get my_last_10_years_of_my_life_back.happiness I was unable to access these remotes: girls ... oops ;) so, I followed the walkthrough and isn't there "git commit" missing after git annex init invocations which leave .git-annex/uuid.lo