From cbf63f4b1aa052ca8b590835c6177e3d24e90014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:05:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] response --- ..._1_4d07f87b433228fdaebce2805fc64492._comment | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/files_got_replaced_by_broken_symblinks__44___how_to_get_them_back__63__/comment_1_4d07f87b433228fdaebce2805fc64492._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/files_got_replaced_by_broken_symblinks__44___how_to_get_them_back__63__/comment_1_4d07f87b433228fdaebce2805fc64492._comment b/doc/forum/files_got_replaced_by_broken_symblinks__44___how_to_get_them_back__63__/comment_1_4d07f87b433228fdaebce2805fc64492._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d8046026b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/files_got_replaced_by_broken_symblinks__44___how_to_get_them_back__63__/comment_1_4d07f87b433228fdaebce2805fc64492._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2016-01-15T19:01:22Z" + content=""" +git-annex uses broken symlinks for files in the git repository whose +content is not currently present. + +On filesystems not supporting symlinks, git represents them by putting the +symlink target in a regular file. This seems to be what you have here. + +Your `find` command shows that the content is *not* located in +.git/annex/objects. It only found a .map file, not the content file. + +So, `git annex get` seems like the most likely thing that will get the +content of these files from wherever it's stored. +"""]]