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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 5"""
date="2023-05-16T16:32:51Z"
content="""
sync's intent is to replicate as close as possible the following common
git workflow:
first stage some changes, and then run:
git commit -m foo
git pull
git push
Since git-annex has some complications involving pulling and pushing
the git-annex branch, and transferring the content, it adds a learning
curve that was too high. Giving users one new command to learn minimizes
the learning curve. (It's unfortunate it didn't originally send content,
and annex.synccontent aims to fix that oversight and I hope it may eventually
become default.)
For git-annex sync to default to doing something not in the above
pull+commit+push workflow would be surprising, because that's the workflow
users have been told it handles.
Notice that the git-annex assistant will happily add all files to the
repository and send their content. That's because it's *not* targeting
users who expect to use that git workflow. So it's not surprising that it
does what it does.
In conclusion, if having this behavior enabled by git config is not useful,
then it does not belong in `git-annex sync`. It could go in a new command.
"""]]

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 6"""
date="2023-05-16T17:05:35Z"
content="""
I also generally feel like `git-annex sync` was probably a bad conflation
of 3 git commands into 1 command when there could have just been `git-annex
pull` and `git-annex push`. The fact that it conflates several things makes
users think of it as just a big "does all the things" command, which makes
users want it to do more things.
It is not too late to split it up, and eventually deprecating it would be a
good path to making annex.synccontent default.
"""]]