From: diepes Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:03:38 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Added a comment X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~4715^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=28f86f84dfb69cf227824de414c1a9aaeff47090;p=git-annex.git Added a comment --- diff --git a/doc/special_remotes/rsync/comment_3_06c44abf86dde69b504c9017f2c3114d._comment b/doc/special_remotes/rsync/comment_3_06c44abf86dde69b504c9017f2c3114d._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..41395dbbab --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/special_remotes/rsync/comment_3_06c44abf86dde69b504c9017f2c3114d._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=txt + username="diepes" + ip="105.227.34.36" + subject="comment 3" + date="2013-03-29T22:03:38Z" + content=""" + * It sound to me it would be 1st prize if the cloud provider supported the git-annex functionality over ssh. + * Then it could be a full git-annex repo, and used for recovery if my laptop with the git info gets lost. + + * From special remotes \"These can be used just like any normal remote by git-annex\" + * Your comment \"No, special remotes do not contain a copy of the git repository\" + + * so a special remote is +1. A. just a remote filesystem, that contains the objects with sha1 names ? +2. B. there is no git info and thus no file name & directory details or am i missing something ? +3. C. you can't use the remote as a cloud drive to sync changes e.g. file moves, renames between two other git-annex repositories ? (no meta data) 4. D. the data on the cloud/rsync storage can not be used directly it has to moved into a git-annex capable storage location. + + * Would it not be better to mount the remote storage over ssh(sshfs) and then use full git-annex on mounted directory ? +"""]]