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 feeling that the copy went > a little too fast ... > > > Can I suggest that the following wording be changed from this: > "When you add a file to the annex and commit it, only a symlink to the > annexed content is committed. The content itself is stored in > git-annex's backend." > > to this: > When you add a file to the annex, the content is moved to git-annex's > backend (.git/annex/..) and replaced with a symlink. The commit only > commits the symlink.
I've made a similar wording change. Thanks for taking an unfortunate mistake and turning it constructive! > The http://git-annex.branchable.com/how_it_works/ page might be > improved the same way. > It currently says > "The contents of large files are not stored in git, only the names of > the files and some other metadata remain there." > which is strictly true but might lead others to make the same mistaken > assumption that I did. I think the next paragraph after that explains it well enough there. -- see shy jo
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