git-annex - documentation clarification - I've had data loss

2014-02-10 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Not sure you'd call this a docs bug; more like 90% my fault. Just posting in case it might help someone avoid the same mistake. I used git annex on an external usb disk of mine. When I read the docs, I took the following: When you add a file to the annex and commit it, only a symlink to the

Re: git-annex - documentation clarification - I've had data loss

2014-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Hannigan wrote: Anyway, time passes, and I decide to move all this content over to a different disk. I just used drag and drop from a gui (not sure whether windows or linux) and of course the select doesn't pick up the .git directory. Next I reformated the disk, and get a funny

Re: git-annex - documentation clarification - I've had data loss

2014-02-10 Thread Matthew Hannigan
(here it is again -- to the list!) Thanks Joey. I still think it should be mentioned up front that the the 'add' actually moves the file. It's a clear difference to how git works. Interesting about direct mode; I hadn't heard of it and was about to request such a feature! Thanks Sean and Klaus