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2010-10-21 23:27:29 +00:00
There should be a backend where the file content is stored.. in a git
repository!
This way, you know your annexed content is safe & versioned, but you only
have to deal with the pain of git with large files in one place, and can
use all of git-annex's features everywhere else.
2011-03-14 13:52:07 +00:00
> Speaking as a future user, do very, very much want. -- RichiH
2011-03-14 16:18:23 +00:00
>> Might also be interesting to use `bup` in the git backend, to work
>> around git's big file issues there. So git-annex would pull data out
>> of the git backend using bup. --[[Joey]]
2011-03-14 17:06:30 +00:00
>>> Very much so. Generally speaking, having one or more versioned storage back-ends with current data in the local annexes sounds incredibly useful. Still being able to get at old data in via the back-end and/or making offline backups of the full history are excellent use cases. -- RichiH