there are now at least 3 ways to do this; explain and close

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Joey Hess 2015-01-13 16:38:19 -04:00
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> VFAT is a crippled file system. I am not going to reimplenent all of git
> to support it. The suggested method won't work; git-annex would need
> to add a git-annex revert, etc, etc, etc ad infinitum. [[wontfix|done]] --[[Joey]]
> to add a git-annex revert, etc, etc, etc ad infinitum
>
> Instead, see the `git annex proxy` command. [[done]] --[[Joey]]

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One problem I keep having when using a direct repo is that in order to get to the previous versions of a file you have to convert that repo to indirect and then checkout previous commits this becomes problematic when the repo in question is large conversion takes a long time and applications gets confused if there are open files from the repo as they go from actual files to symlinks. Is it possible to have a separate annex command that will checkout a previous version of a file to a different directory so we can replace/inspect it.
> I recently added a `git annex proxy` command, which can be used
> to amoung other things, rewind a direct mode repo to have some old
> version checked out.
>
> For example, you can do: `git annex proxy git checkout old-version`
> And then the old version of all annexed files will be checked out.
>
> If the old version of a file is not available, it'll be a broken
> symlink and you can then use `git annex get` etc to get the content from
> some remote.
>
> Once you have the old version of the file, you can
> make a copy, and then switch back to the present with `git annex proxy
> git checkout annex/direct/master`. Then you can add the copy of the old
> version of the file to the repo, or whatever.
>
> Or, sometimes more simply, you can `git annex proxy git revert $commit`
> to revert a commit that made an unwanted change to a file.
>
> Or, simpler still, `git annex undo $file` will undo the last change
> that git-annex committed to that file, bringing back the old version.
>
> So, this seems [[done]]! --[[Joey]]