diff --git a/doc/forum/Import_existing_files/comment_2_362ce3b030970db82c8dd0d98791186b._comment b/doc/forum/Import_existing_files/comment_2_362ce3b030970db82c8dd0d98791186b._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..45887ce220 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Import_existing_files/comment_2_362ce3b030970db82c8dd0d98791186b._comment @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="AlbertZeyer" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/b37d71961a6a5abf9b7184ed77b5a941" + subject="comment 2" + date="2021-01-01T22:30:34Z" + content=""" +Hi, thanks for the answer. + +What if I would want to leave `~/Pictures` as-is, and not move it, nor change it? I would prefer that. I just want to add its content to a Git Annex repo, and easily sync future changes as well to the repo (e.g. after I added more files, or renamed some files, or updated some files). + +Why `git annex sync` and not `git commit`? I always did only `git commit` so far. + +Why `git annex reinject` and not `git annex import` or `cp|mv` & `git annex add`? +Also, why would I not add files which were/are not part of the original `~/Pictures`? The original `~/Pictures` would not have contained all of the pictures, as they are somewhat distributed. So I want to add unknown files as well. + +Why would I import the DVD to a dummy branch? I would want it all in my master/main branch, or not? (I also don't quite understand why I would want branches at all?) +I also potentially want to `git annex get` such a file at some point. + +What are \"too many files\" for a single repo? And why is that a problem? +I am just adding a Google Takeout archive to Git Annex ([via](https://github.com/albertz/chrome-ext-google-takeout-downloader/)), and it will contain also many of the files of `~/Pictures` (although not all; and sometimes, but not always, in smaller quality, but often also in original quality), but also many other files. So it's already pretty mixed up. +Or does it make sense to just share the Annex object storage (`.git/annex/objects`) in multiple repos? +Or do you mean that as the intended use case for branches actually? + +What dotfiles does `annex.dotfiles` include? Just all `.*`? +Why would I not want to add dotfiles? I think I would want to just archive the whole directory as-is. + +Also, after reading a bit further, and trying it out a bit, I don't quite understand: + +Given some file path (e.g. `Picture/BestPics2020/a.jpg`), how can I find other paths of the same file? (E.g. I would also have the file stored under `Picture/2020/01/a.jpg` or so.) Is that with `git annex list`? I'm not sure this lists all paths. So far I only see a single path always. + +I'm not really sure how to use `git annex import` properly, in case the file is already annexed under a different path. In any case, I also want to add the new path (new name). + +Sorry for the many follow-up questions, but this is still all somewhat unclear to me. + +"""]]