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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""parent post is rife with incorrect and misleading statements"""
date="2021-01-04T20:03:19Z"
content="""
AFAIK there are no circumstances where git-annex will lose data unless you
use the --force flag, which is clearly documented as allowing data loss.
If you have a case where it does, *file a bug report**.
git-annex uninit does *not* delete .git/annex/objects if there are
any objects in there that are not used by files in the repo, so it can't
have behaved as you claim it did, at least as far as I can tell. Here is an
example of it not deleting data, in a situation like the one you claimed
caused data loss:
joey@darkstar:/tmp/demo>git annex add foo
joey@darkstar:/tmp/demo>git commit -m add
joey@darkstar:/tmp/demo>git rm foo
joey@darkstar:/tmp/demo>git annex uninit
git-annex: Not fully uninitialized
Some annexed data is still left in .git/annex/objects/
This may include deleted files, or old versions of modified files.
If you don't care about preserving the data, just delete the
directory.
Or, you can move it to another location, in case it turns out
something in there is important.
Or, you can run `git annex unused` followed by `git annex dropunused`
to remove data that is not used by any tag or branch, which might
take care of all the data.
Then run `git annex uninit` again to finish.
joey@darkstar:/tmp/demo>find .git/annex/objects/ -type f
.git/annex/objects/Zj/zZ/SHA256E-s30--9d9f1f02932124b06e803a4899068dbc1df00d126447d226bb312861e0b7de83/SHA256E-s30--9d9f1f02932124b06e803a4899068dbc1df00d126447d226bb312861e0b7de83
I document changes before I implement them, and this website is updated
on every push of changes to git-annex. While some tip somewhere may be
out of date, the one you mentioned does not appear to be. It looks
like you misunderstood something about it.
A drive in a safe full of files with and without git-annex has identical
durability. Using git-annex does *not* cause file to be less accessible or
add significant roadblocks to accessing them no matter what problems might
befall that drive. Worst case, fsck of a corrupted filesystem on that drive
will rescue files to lost+found with the git-annex key name and not the
original filename. This is easy to recover from though, using `git-annex
reinject --known`. Which also, conventiently, works if fsck on a badly
damaged drive restores the file to lost+found using a bare inode number.
Which, if you're not using git-annex, puts you in a world of hurt to
determine what file that originally was.
"""]]