From 107dc6bde4c24a488635b555184b6c05c008d618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://me.yahoo.com/a/FHnTlSBo1eCGJRwueeKeB6.RCaPbGMPr5jxx8A--#ce0d8" Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:42:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...o_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn b/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..00f500d100 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +One problem I keep having when using a direct repo is that in order to get to the previous versions of a file you have to convert that repo to indirect and then checkout previous commits this becomes problematic when the repo in question is large conversion takes a long time and applications gets confused if there are open files from the repo as they go from actual files to symlinks. Is it possible to have a separate annex command that will checkout a previous version of a file to a different directory so we can replace/inspect it.