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@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ In the world of git, we're not scared about internal implementation
details, and sometimes we like to dive in and tweak things by hand. Here's
some documentation to that end.
## `.git/annex/objects/aa/bb/*/*`
## The .git/ directory
### `.git/annex/objects/aa/bb/*/*`
This is where locally available file contents are actually stored.
Files added to the annex get a symlink checked into git that points
@ -27,11 +29,11 @@ Also in [[direct_mode]], some additional data is stored in these directories.
changed, and `.map` files contain a list of file(s) in the work directory
that contain the key.
# `.git/annex/tmp/`
### `.git/annex/tmp/`
This directory contains partially transferred objects.
# `.git/annex/misctmp/`
### `.git/annex/misctmp/`
This is a temp directory for miscellaneous other temp files.
@ -39,26 +41,26 @@ While .git/annex/objects and .git/annex/tmp can be put on different
filesystems if desired, .git/annex/misctmp
has to be on the same filesystem as the work tree and git repository.
# `.git/annex/bad/`
### `.git/annex/bad/`
git-annex fsck puts any bad objects it finds in here.
# `.git/annex/transfers/`
### `.git/annex/transfers/`
Contains information files for uploads and downloads that are in progress,
as well as any that have failed. Used especially by the assistant.
It is safe to delete these files.
# `.git/annex/ssh/`
### `.git/annex/ssh/`
ssh connection caching files are written in here.
# `.git/annex/index`
### `.git/annex/index`
This is a git index file which git-annex uses for commits to the git-annex
branch.
This is a git index file which git-annex uses to stage files
when preparing commits to the git-annex branch.
# `.git/annex/journal/`
### `.git/annex/journal/`
git-annex uses this to journal changes to the git-annex branch,
before committing a set of changes.
@ -67,13 +69,9 @@ before committing a set of changes.
This branch is managed by git-annex, with the contents listed below.
The file `.git/annex/index` is a separate git index file it uses
to accumulate changes for the git-annex branch.
Also, `.git/annex/journal/` is used to record changes before they
are added to git.
This branch operates on objects exclusively. No file names will ever
be stored in this branch.
This branch is not connected to your master, etc branches. It it used for
internal tracking of information about git-annex repositories and annexed
objects.
The files stored in this branch are all designed to be auto-merged
using git's [[union merge driver|git-union-merge]]. So each line