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pre-commit-annex hook script to automatically extract metadata from lots of types of files Using the extract(1) program to do the heavy lifting. Decided to make git-annex run pre-commit-annex when committing. Since git-annex pre-commit also runs it, it'll be run when git commit is run too, via the pre-commit hook. This basically gives back the pre-commit hook that git-annex took away. The implementation avoids repeatedly looking for the hook script when the assistant is running and committing repeatedly; only checks if the hook is available once. To make the script simpler, made git-annex metadata -s field?=value only set a field when it's not already got a value. This commit was sponsored by bak.
2014-03-02 22:01:07 +00:00
git-annex's [[metadata]] works best when files have a lot of useful
metadata attached to them.
To make git-annex automatically set the year and month when adding files,
run `git config annex.genmetadata true`.
A git commit hook can be set up to extract lots of metadata from files
like photos, mp3s, etc.
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2014-03-03 00:27:37 +00:00
1. Install the `extract` utility, from <http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/>
`apt-get install extract`
2. Download [[pre-commit-annex]] and install it in your git-annex repository
as `.git/hooks/pre-commit-annex`.
Remember to make the script executable!
3. Run: `git config metadata.extract "artist album title camera_make video_dimensions"`
pre-commit-annex hook script to automatically extract metadata from lots of types of files Using the extract(1) program to do the heavy lifting. Decided to make git-annex run pre-commit-annex when committing. Since git-annex pre-commit also runs it, it'll be run when git commit is run too, via the pre-commit hook. This basically gives back the pre-commit hook that git-annex took away. The implementation avoids repeatedly looking for the hook script when the assistant is running and committing repeatedly; only checks if the hook is available once. To make the script simpler, made git-annex metadata -s field?=value only set a field when it's not already got a value. This commit was sponsored by bak.
2014-03-02 22:01:07 +00:00
Now any fields you list in metadata.extract to will be extracted and
stored when files are committed.
i think i understand what that sed meant
2014-04-01 04:21:58 +00:00
To get a list of all possible fields, run: `extract -L | sed 's/ /_/g'`
pre-commit-annex hook script to automatically extract metadata from lots of types of files Using the extract(1) program to do the heavy lifting. Decided to make git-annex run pre-commit-annex when committing. Since git-annex pre-commit also runs it, it'll be run when git commit is run too, via the pre-commit hook. This basically gives back the pre-commit hook that git-annex took away. The implementation avoids repeatedly looking for the hook script when the assistant is running and committing repeatedly; only checks if the hook is available once. To make the script simpler, made git-annex metadata -s field?=value only set a field when it's not already got a value. This commit was sponsored by bak.
2014-03-02 22:01:07 +00:00
By default, if a git-annex already has a metadata field for a file,
its value will not be overwritten with metadata taken from files.
To allow overwriting, run: `git config metadata.overwrite true`
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