From dba0e89b71e8ce245a91c52668f4ce40355ee8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anarcat Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 20:15:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a comment --- ...t_1_eba2b140f9d5a9f7ee23cb3ba7da7612._comment | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/tips/hiding_missing_files/comment_1_eba2b140f9d5a9f7ee23cb3ba7da7612._comment diff --git a/doc/tips/hiding_missing_files/comment_1_eba2b140f9d5a9f7ee23cb3ba7da7612._comment b/doc/tips/hiding_missing_files/comment_1_eba2b140f9d5a9f7ee23cb3ba7da7612._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d04505e09e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/hiding_missing_files/comment_1_eba2b140f9d5a9f7ee23cb3ba7da7612._comment @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="anarcat" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/4ad594c1e13211c1ad9edb81ce5110b7" + subject="comment 1" + date="2019-03-07T20:15:10Z" + content=""" +i have had many problems trying this on a ntfs filesystem. the idea was to share files with a friend using a Mac (we're desperate) and having a partial checkout that only showed the files that were present. + +first, `git annex upgrade --version=7` doesn't work - i don't know when or if [[git-annex-upgrade]] ever supported that option. + +then `git annex sync --content some_file some_directory --no-push --no-pull` doesn't work either: this will tell you that `some_file` is not a remote, because that's the argument git-annex expects to `sync`. I tried the `-C` (`--content-of`) option, but it doesn't work on missing files: + + git-annex: /media/anarcat/red-rhl/video/tv/directory/missing-file.mkv not found + +note that this is the local repository path, not the remote. `missing-file.mkv` *is* present on the remote, but is totally missing locally. I have no idea how I can fetch that file, even in unlocked mode, it's really strange... -- [[anarcat]] +"""]]