From 8958556fe37b5bb5e3b7298e337f1605aa33556f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 20:41:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] thought --- doc/todo/export_preferred_content.mdwn | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/export_preferred_content.mdwn b/doc/todo/export_preferred_content.mdwn index b576dcacd1..b0e13ca5ad 100644 --- a/doc/todo/export_preferred_content.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/export_preferred_content.mdwn @@ -141,3 +141,17 @@ a subtree. > > > started work on this in the `preferred` branch. --[[Joey]] +## different preferred content for export and import? + +May be cases where this makes sense. For example, I might make my phone +prefer all content that has some metadata set, but want to import all files +from my phone (or all files except those in the music directory). + +OTOH, that config would cause files imported from the phone to be removed +from it on the next export, unless the necessary metadata got set; git +annex sync --content would not work well. + +Better example: Make the phone want all content that is in the laptop +group, so all files on my laptop export to the phone but not others that I +have archived. But want to import all files from the phone, which is not in +the laptop group, so need a separate expression for import.