From 089fe40314d19464f8c4cd3996487b25d18a3c61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "kristianrumberg@85de814abe9398ab5573b77bb8a7a80ceaf3b9e1" Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 03:49:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...ex_copy_which_is_as_fast_as_git_annex_get.mdwn | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Alternative_to_git_annex_copy_which_is_as_fast_as_git_annex_get.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Alternative_to_git_annex_copy_which_is_as_fast_as_git_annex_get.mdwn b/doc/forum/Alternative_to_git_annex_copy_which_is_as_fast_as_git_annex_get.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a885ffb748 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Alternative_to_git_annex_copy_which_is_as_fast_as_git_annex_get.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +I have a big git-annex repository. If I add a few files on my laptop I want to sync it with my server which consists of one bare git-annex repository (server_bare) and one regular git-annex repository (server). + +I run + +git annex sync +git annex copy * --to server + +The second command is really slow since it runs git annex copy on every single file that I have locally (it sometimes takes an hour to complete). If I would instead run + +git annex sync +git annex get . + +This is usually quite fast, but it is not so easy to do since I don't keep an SSH port open on my laptop. + +My question: Is there any command that I can run on my laptop which basically runs "git annex get ." from the server?