From: Joey Hess Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 16:36:44 +0000 (-0400) Subject: response X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~69^2~318 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c0724e9a84b68278561e633a99768f943cac5bb;p=git-annex.git response --- diff --git a/doc/todo/annex.addunlocked_in_gitattributes/comment_7_d06e3412f07d98c784b420d82d2d8d49._comment b/doc/todo/annex.addunlocked_in_gitattributes/comment_7_d06e3412f07d98c784b420d82d2d8d49._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dc4eea27e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/annex.addunlocked_in_gitattributes/comment_7_d06e3412f07d98c784b420d82d2d8d49._comment @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 7""" + date="2022-08-01T16:10:31Z" + content=""" +Well, moving your annex.largefiles settings from gitattributes to `git-annex +config` won't speed up queries for it, because the gitattribute overrides +the `git-annex config` setting. And so git-annex still has to do the work +of querying for the gitattribute anyway, even when it's not set. + +In [[!commit 4acbb40112aa73dcde63841d8d8c04c433f6a806]] I benchmarked that +as making `git-annex add` 2% slower than it would be otherwise (excluding +hashing). We will just have to live with that, unless the gitattribute +can eventually somehow be deprecated. +That is a good lesson about the risks of adding more gitattributes. + +annex.backend is not currently configurable by `git-annex config`. +It would be listed in its man page if it were. + +I'd support adding that, but annex.backend is currently the name of a +single backend, so this would not allow setting the backend differently for +different filenames. Which is something that gitattributes can do. So it +would need annex.backend to be expanded, so it can specify different +backends for different filenames or other properties. I don't know how that +syntax would look; the syntax git-annex currently uses for annex.largefiles +etc is not suitable here. It would certianly be an added complication. + +Also, it seems that the reasoning that made the annex.largefiles +gitattributes override `git-annex config` would also make sense for +annex.backend, and if so there would be no performance benefit to moving +it. I'm not sure what that reasoning was. Possibly that there +might be cases where the desired value depends on the branch that's checked +out. +"""]]