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Provide a less expensive version of git annex copy --to, enabled via --fast. This assumes that location tracking information is correct, rather than contacting the remote for every file.

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Joey Hess 2011-03-27 18:34:30 -04:00
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-- RichiH
> (Use of SHA is irrelevant here, copy does not checksum anything.)
>
> I think what you're seeing is
> that `git annex copy --to remote` is slow, going to the remote repository
> every time to see if it has the file, while `git annex copy --from remote`
> is fast, since it looks at what files are locally present.
>
> That is something I mean to improve. At least `git annex copy --fast --to remote`
> could easily do a fast copy of all files that are known to be missing from
> the remote repository. When local and remote git repos are not 100% in sync,
> relying on that data could miss some files that the remote doesn't have anymore,
> but local doesn't know it dropped. That's why it's a candidate for `--fast`.
>
> I've just implemented that.
>
> While I do hope to improve ssh usage so that it sshs once, and feeds
> `git-annex-shell` a series of commands to run, that is a much longer-term
> thing. --[[Joey]]