Re: syncing non-git trees with git-annex

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
I would use find -name \*.avi -exec git annex add {} \; but other than that, this seems fine. Depending on your level of OCD, it might make sense to throw away the initial repo once your data is clean and import everything in a clean one. That's what I do. Richard PS: There are various

Re: syncing non-git trees with git-annex

2011-12-14 Thread Adam Spiers
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Richard Hartmann richih.mailingl...@gmail.com wrote: I would use  find -name \*.avi -exec git annex add {} \; That's substantially less performant, because it forks a whole new tree of git / git-annex processes per file. If we're getting picky, we should also

Re: syncing non-git trees with git-annex

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 14:15, Adam Spiers vcs-h...@adamspiers.org wrote: That's substantially less performant, because it forks a whole new tree of git / git-annex processes per file. True. Interesting - any particular reason for doing that? Mainly that I will keep my repos for as long as