3 subject="""comment 11"""
4 date="2023-07-12T17:03:27Z"
6 Please don't engage in unwarranted speculation about strange desires of mine
7 to eliminate features that are crucial to git-annex. In general, avoid
8 inflammatory language on this website. Thank you.
10 It's important that git-annex be able to make changes that make it better.
11 Backwards compatability is not everything. Improvements can make git-annex
12 more cohesive and easier to understand for new users.
13 This kind of pre-warned transition is commonly used by git when making
14 similarly impactful changes.
16 annex.synccontent can be set in your global git config. It can also be set
17 with `git-annex config` which will affect all clones of that repo. This
18 will be a minor amount of work for most users to deal with.
20 BTW, this transition plan actually started 6 years ago when I added
21 annex.syncontent configuration and --no-content.
22 [[!commit b77903af48e650dbb777f29e98d0c7b388353ebd]]
23 As you note, it's important that's already available in all commonly used
24 old versions of git-annex.