respond; improve docs

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Joey Hess 2014-03-26 13:11:49 -04:00
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@ -36,6 +36,17 @@ way collect the caps of the files from annex metadatas and to link
them to a directory, which where i can then run "tahoe deep-check
--add-lease" on;
> When I talked this over with Zooko before, he
> thought it was better for git-annex to not use tahoe's directories,
> which is why it doesn't. See [[todo/tahoe_lfs_for_reals]].
>
> This is the first I have heard about tahoe garbage collection.
> It sounds like it's an optional process.
>
> It would certainly be possible to pull the caps for files out of
> git-annex's remote state log.
> --[[Joey]]
2. add convergence as an optional parameter. As of now many of the
files that i'm willing to manage with git-annex are already on my
grid, mostly because i've used tahoe's backup command to upload
@ -46,5 +57,6 @@ to save much time and space by avoiding duplicates.
Do you have any good pointers to pieces code of git-annex that i can
read and hack to try to implement this or any other suggestion?
> You sent me a email with these same questions and I'd rather not try to
> respond in 2 places. --[[Joey]]
> It was not documented, but you can already pass
> `shared-convergence-secret=xxx` to `initremote`.
> I have documented it. --[[Joey]]

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@ -22,8 +22,12 @@ daemon as needed.
These parameters can be passed to `git annex initremote` to configure
the tahoe remote.
* `shared-convergence-secret` - Optional. Can be useful to set to
allow tahoe to deduplicate information. By default, a new
shared-convergence-secret is created for each tahoe remote.
* `embedcreds` - Optional. Set to "yes" embed the tahoe credentials
(specifically the introducer furl and shared-convergence-secret)
(specifically the introducer-furl and shared-convergence-secret)
inside the git repository, which allows other clones to also use them
in order to access the tahoe grid.