diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_20__gcrypt_and_git-annex-shell.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_20__gcrypt_and_git-annex-shell.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e4142b7c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_20__gcrypt_and_git-annex-shell.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Added support for gcrypt remotes to git-annex-shell. Now gcrypt special +remotes probe when they are set up to see if the remote system has a +suitable git-annex-shell, and if so all commands are sent to it. Kept the +direct rsync mode working as a fallback. + +It turns out I made a bad decision when first adding gcrypt support to +git-annex. To make implementation marginally easier, I decided to not +put objects inside the usual `annex/objects` directory in a gcrypt remote. +But that lack of consistency would have made adding support to +git-annex-shell a lot harder. So, I decided to change this. Which +means that anyone already using gcrypt with git-annex will need to +[[manually_move_files_around|upgrades/gcrypt]]. + +Today's work was sponsored by Tobias Nix.