diff --git a/doc/forum/Fix_wrong_rsync_with_git_annex_reinit__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/Fix_wrong_rsync_with_git_annex_reinit__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ea4e30c9f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Fix_wrong_rsync_with_git_annex_reinit__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +# Context + +* Had two repo A and B. +* A had a lot of content not yet tracked and thus not available on B. +* Filesystem problem on A: (relatively small) part of big repo content is lost. +* In emergency, used rsync to propagate yet untracked content from failing A to sane B. +* But forgot `ignore .git`, so rsync also partly rsync'ed `.git/annex` . +* Now sane repo B believes it is the source one (same UUID A) as shown by `git annex info --fast`. + +Both A and B show: + + UUID-of-A -- A [here] + UUID-of-B -- B + +# Actions done + +Search on Google, see [[https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex-reinit/]] . + +On B: + + git annex reinit UUID-of-B + git annex fsck + +Now `git annex info -fast` on B shows as expected: + + UUID-of-A -- A + UUID-of-B -- B [here] + + +I'm currently doing `git annex copy --from B` to repropagate lost parts of A. + +# Question + +* Were actions done best thing to do? +* Is there something more to do? +* Something to check? + +Thanks.