diff --git a/doc/forum/Hashes_instead_of_content_in_files/comment_2_a111296eecf7d69ff30f6a82e9f1e6d4._comment b/doc/forum/Hashes_instead_of_content_in_files/comment_2_a111296eecf7d69ff30f6a82e9f1e6d4._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9f4d5d0dc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Hashes_instead_of_content_in_files/comment_2_a111296eecf7d69ff30f6a82e9f1e6d4._comment @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="Adam000" + subject="comment 2" + date="2016-09-15T15:57:59Z" + content=""" +Linux boxes. The repository is v6 and has files unlocked. I like to have my files unlocked so I can edit them. Is there a way to keep them unlocked, but transfer the real file content? Or, edit, then, as a batch operation, lock, sync, unlock? +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/Hashes_instead_of_content_in_files/comment_3_574964b83563df3afea9049754b1cfa2._comment b/doc/forum/Hashes_instead_of_content_in_files/comment_3_574964b83563df3afea9049754b1cfa2._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9f2b988f19 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Hashes_instead_of_content_in_files/comment_3_574964b83563df3afea9049754b1cfa2._comment @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="Adam000" + subject="comment 3" + date="2016-09-15T16:03:42Z" + content=""" +Locking the files in the first repo did the trick. Ideally a solution is available permitting transfer of unlocked files. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/todo/Workflow_guide.mdwn b/doc/todo/Workflow_guide.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5cc971b13d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/Workflow_guide.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +I try to use git annex, but I frequently don't know if I'm doing things correctly, and my files are getting messed up. + +An expert guide to the full workflow would go a long way toward user-friendliness for me. The walkthrough currently has guides to a number discrete items in the workflow, but it doesn't give me a clear sense of the process. + +I'm always confused about when I'm supposed to be using pure git commands and when they should be git annex commands, when to commit, add, and sync --content, and when each of these is redundant. + +If possible, most helpful would be a guide to how you imagine the workflow from the beginning and including each step of the process, in the order you'd do it. + +I want to start keeping track of some files I have in a directory +I want to copy them to a second computer. +From a third place, I want to get them from the second computer. +I change the files on one computer, and I want to make sure the changes get synced to the others. +What are the commands you'd run at each step? + +Many thanks.