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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="xloem"
subject="did this today"
date="2016-04-25T20:40:02Z"
content="""
it's interesting to find this discussion, I just finished implementing this on my system.
I've been storing bare repos in annex in order to back them up with the same system. I have really huge files in some of my git repos and I wanted to get those files into the annex system but still keep a record of their changes (the git history).
Today I removed the core.bare = true setting on the repos and instead set core.worktree = projectdir, and ran git checkout in projectdir. I have the index file in .gitignore, so there won't be that weird unresolvable conflict. Now all my bloated git history is stored in the annex, and I can still work with it in the annexed checkout.
I was thinking I'd do this again with the root of the repository when the annex grows too large, to back up the old history in a connected way.
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