2010-10-25 21:31:07 +00:00
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It would be nice if git-annex could be used in bare git repos.
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However, that is not currently supported. Problems include:
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* git-annex often does not read a git repo's config before touching it,
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so it doesn't know if the repo is bare or not
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(reading the config when operating on ssh repos would be a pain and SLOW;
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I had some of that code in as of 1aa19422ac8748eeff219ac4f46df166dae783c5,
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but ripped it all out)
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* .. which results in creating `.git/annex` in a bare repo, which mightily
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confuses git (so it will complain that the bare repo is not
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a git repo at all!)
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* `.git-annex/` needs to have state recorded to it and committed, and that
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is not possible with a bare repo. (If [[todo/branching]] were done,
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2011-06-22 21:56:07 +00:00
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that might be fixed.) (now fixed)
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2011-01-01 00:38:50 +00:00
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Update: Now that git-annex-shell is used for accessing remote repos,
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it would be possible to add smarts about bare repos there, and avoid
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some of the above problems. Probably only the state recording problem
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remains.
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A possible other approach to the state recording repo is to not
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record state changes on the remote in that case. Git-annex already
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records remote state changes locally whenever it modifies the state of a
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remote. --[[Joey]]
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2011-03-03 19:59:16 +00:00
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> And... [[done]]! See [[/bare_repositories]] for current status
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> and gotchas. --[[Joey]]
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