diff --git a/doc/forum/post-copy__47__sync_hook.mdwn b/doc/forum/post-copy__47__sync_hook.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..05fbc0b291 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/post-copy__47__sync_hook.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Hi, + +I have the following setup: +- normal git repository with website code. +- git annex repository to hold large set of binary data (pdfs, flashmovies, etc) that belongs to the site. + +I use git annex so I (and other developers) don't need to copy 1.4Gb+ of binary data for every working copy. (Data that is mostly left untouched.) Using git annex copy --to=origin I can simply only add new additions to this media/binary repository, without first pulling all the data. So far so good. + +When commits are pushed to a certain branch on the normal git repository, a post-receive hook exports (GIT_WORK_TREE=/data/site/ git checkout $branch -f) the updated repository to an apache documentroot. Thereby updating the staging server of the website. + +My question is, how can I do the same thing for my git annex repository? Since post-receive fires on receiving the annex hashes, and not the actual files. Those are rsynced, and I cannot find a way to trigger an action after all files are copied by git annex via rsync. + +Any tips? + diff --git a/doc/forum/post-copy__47__sync_hook/comment_1_c8322d4b9bbf5eac80b48c312a42fbcf._comment b/doc/forum/post-copy__47__sync_hook/comment_1_c8322d4b9bbf5eac80b48c312a42fbcf._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..04a6f4668e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/post-copy__47__sync_hook/comment_1_c8322d4b9bbf5eac80b48c312a42fbcf._comment @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://joey.kitenet.net/" + nickname="joey" + subject="comment 1" + date="2012-03-14T16:23:25Z" + content=""" +I've made git-annex-shell run the git `hooks/annex-content` after content is received or dropped. + +Note that the clients need to be running at least git-annex version 3.20120227 , which runs git-annex-shell commit, which runs the hook. + +"""]]