From 877d9c42830929efdb3b2c0002a0d9c13d631740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:27:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] devblog --- doc/devblog/day_628__external_key_backends.mdwn | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/devblog/day_628__external_key_backends.mdwn diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_628__external_key_backends.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_628__external_key_backends.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a10939b320 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_628__external_key_backends.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Today I implemented [[external backends|design/external_backend_protocol]] +for keys. So unusual new hashes can be used by writing a small program. + +Probably lots of other uses for this too; I don't know if I'll like +them all. It has the potential to warp git-annex in some directions I don't +want to deal with. Still, it's good to have this feature. + +I was able to reuse a lot of the external special remote code for this, +and only had to write around 400 lines of new code. Dunno how that all +happened in 8 hours, but it did!