From 7e48f80d635ecded29e8040375642e7fb3f763a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:54:23 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update errata for today's release --- doc/assistant/errata.mdwn | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/assistant/errata.mdwn b/doc/assistant/errata.mdwn index a4732a0d7e..03d0d4772b 100644 --- a/doc/assistant/errata.mdwn +++ b/doc/assistant/errata.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,36 @@ +## version 3.20121009 + +This is a maintenance release of the git-annex assistant, which is still in +beta. + +In general, anything you can configure with the assistant's web app +will work. Some examples of use cases supported by this release include: + +* [[Pairing|pairing_walkthrough]] two computers that are on the same local + network (or VPN) and automatically keeping the files in the annex in + sync as changes are made to them. +* Cloning your repository to removable drives, USB keys, etc. The assistant + will notice when the drive is mounted and keep it in sync. + Such a drive can be stored as an offline backup, or transported between + computers to keep them in sync. +* Cloning your repository to a remote server, running ssh, and uploading + changes made to your files to the server. There is special support + for using the rsync.net cloud provider this way, or any shell account + on a typical unix server, such as a Linode VPS can be used. + +The following are known limitations of this release of the git-annex +assistant: + +* On Mac OSX and BSD operating systems, the assistant uses kqueue to watch + files. Kqueue has to open every directory it watches, so too many + directories will run it out of the max number of open files (typically + 1024), and fail. See [[bugs/Issue_on_OSX_with_some_system_limits]] + for a workaround. +* In order to ensure that all multiple repositories are kept in sync, + each computer with a repository must be running the git-annex assistant. +* The assistant does not yet always manage to keep repositories in sync + when some are hidden from others behind firewalls. + ## version 3.20120924 This is the first beta release of the git-annex assistant.