diff --git a/doc/forum/Efficiently_move_files_from_one_repo_to_another/comment_2_be029c0880e76d6b5672eed394140438._comment b/doc/forum/Efficiently_move_files_from_one_repo_to_another/comment_2_be029c0880e76d6b5672eed394140438._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..add32237cb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Efficiently_move_files_from_one_repo_to_another/comment_2_be029c0880e76d6b5672eed394140438._comment @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="mario" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/4c63b0935789d29210d0bd8cad8d7ac7" + subject="re: comment 1" + date="2018-09-24T18:02:38Z" + content=""" +Hi Ilya_Shlyakhter, thanks for your answer. + +I'm not sure about using different branches. What prevents other users from just checking out the branches, also the git-annex branch tracks the clear names of all remotes. Moreover, it's a scalability question. Assume the server has thousands (millions?) of files while the phone has only a few. Then it still would be \"bothered\" all the location tracking information of the server. + +But one thing in the »local caching« tip raised my attention: \"git config remote.cache.annex-speculate-present true\" + +The tip says: \"The annex-speculate-present setting is the essential part. It makes git-annex know that the cache repository may contain the content of any annexed file. So, when getting a file, git-annex will try the cache repository first.\" + +Together with \"git config remote.cache.annex-pull false; git config remote.cache.annex-push false\" this could be pretty close to my \"local location tracking\" idea. + +It further says: \"The cache repository will remain an empty git repository (except for the content of annexed files). This means that the same cache can be used with multiple different git-annex repositories, without intermingling their git data.\" Thus, there should be no »information leaks« between two repos that both use this cache. + +A thing I would have to work around is that I should not do \"git annex --copy --to server --not --in server\". Or, at least before doing this I should always log into the server and do \"git-annex get\" first. + +Thanks again for your suggestion. I will give this approach a try. +"""]]