From 81b9d7564c237debf84805a32e6e585f11301f15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anarcat Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 19:51:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn b/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fb69849549 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/hide_missing_files.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I seem to recall a time when [[direct mode]] would hide files that were not present in the local repository. While this created a bunch of headaches for people that wanted to get the missing files, it was great for users that didn't care and only wanted to see what was actually there. (In fact, it was suggested as a solution in [[forum/usability:_what_are_those_arrow_things__63__/]], a year and a half ago.) + +Now this behavior has changed, and with v6 coming up, all those distinctions have basically gone away anyways... + +So what's someone to do if he wants to deal with the usability issue mentioned above? To restate: the problem is users I share files with often see a *lot* of files, with only a fraction of them being actually present. A lot of those files are obviously large, and so they are having a frustrating experience with git-annex because they see all those promises of "files being there" but they have a hard time actually finding which files *really* are there. So they click one one broken link after the other and generally give up before they figure out how to pop a terminal open, use `find -L -type l` or `find -type l` (i can never remember which!) - something we can hardly expect from the average GUI user... + +Thanks for any advice! --[[anarcat]]