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Joey Hess 2011-11-07 13:26:37 -04:00
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@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ On your laptop, [[install]] git-annex, and clone the repository:
# git clone git@github.com:joeyh/techtalks.git
# cd techtalks
Tell git-annex to use the repository, and describe where this clone is
located:
# git annex init 'my laptop'
init my laptop ok
Let's tell git-annex that GitHub doesn't support running git-annex-shell there.
This means you can't store annexed file *contents* on GitHub; it would
really be better to host the bare repository on your own server, which
@ -22,12 +28,6 @@ would not have this limitation. (If you want to do that, check out
# git config remote.origin.annex-ignore true
Tell git-annex to use the repository, and describe where this clone is
located:
# git annex init 'my laptop'
init my laptop ok
## add files to the repository
Add some files, obtained however.
@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ you like, just make it be somewhere your laptop can access. A few options:
* Put it on a desktop.
* Put it on some server in the local network.
* Put it on a remote VPS.
* All of the above!
I'll use the VPS option, but these instructions should work for
any of the above.
@ -101,8 +100,8 @@ If you run `ls`, you'll see broken symlinks. We want to populate this
backup with the file contents, by copying them from your laptop.
Back on your laptop, you need to configure a git remote for the backup.
Adjust the url as needed to point to wherever the backup is. (If it
was on a local USB drive, you'd use the path to the repository.)
Adjust the ssh url as needed to point to wherever the backup is. (If it
was on a local USB drive, you'd use the path to the repository instead.)
# git remote add backup ssh://server/~/techtalks
@ -116,7 +115,9 @@ and can do things like copy files to it:
You can also `git annex move` files to it, to free up space on your laptop.
And then you can `git annex get` files back to your laptop later on, as
desired. After you using git-annex to move files around, remember to push,
desired.
After you use git-annex to move files around, remember to push,
which will broadcast its updated location information.
# git push