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Added a comment: sorta why git-annex exists in the first place -- not only the slow index

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://lj.rossia.org/users/imz/"
ip="79.165.56.162"
subject="sorta why git-annex exists in the first place -- not only the slow index "
date="2012-09-25T22:04:01Z"
content="""
> Git wants to first stage the entire contents of the file in its index. That can be slow for big files (sorta why git-annex exists in the first place)
I think that git-annex's usefulness is not only because of the Git's index overhead: I like its idea because it will help track the copies in the \"[[special remotes]]\", which are not Git because
* they are either not under my control (e.g., web URLs),
* or because it's not convenient to hold a Git repo there (an external disk/DVD with files can be viewed easily by a human, but imposing a Git repo structure on it would either at least double the consume space: for the history of the commits and for the working dir, or make it \"unreadable\" for a human, if it is a bare repo);
* or because it's nearly impossible to put a Git repo on a storage like peer networks without special tools.
"""]]