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rsync: support chunking

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Chunking does not speed up rsync at all, so it's only useful for
interop with the directory special remote.
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Joey Hess 2014-08-03 15:07:43 -04:00
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@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ Or for using rsync over SSH
These parameters can be passed to `git annex initremote` to configure rsync:
* `rsyncurl` - Required. This is the url or `hostname:/directory` to
pass to rsync to tell it where to store content.
* `encryption` - One of "none", "hybrid", "shared", or "pubkey".
See [[encryption]].
* `keyid` - Specifies the gpg key to use for [[encryption]].
* `rsyncurl` - Required. This is the url or `hostname:/directory` to
pass to rsync to tell it where to store content.
* `shellescape` - Optional. Set to "no" to avoid shell escaping normally
done when using rsync over ssh. That escaping is needed with typical
setups, but not with some hosting providers that do not expose rsynced
@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ These parameters can be passed to `git annex initremote` to configure rsync:
quote (`'`) character. If that happens, you can run enableremote
setting shellescape=no.
* `chunk` - Enables [[chunking]] when storing large files.
This is typically not a win for rsync, so no need to enable it.
But, it makes this interoperate with the [[directory]] special remote.
The `annex-rsync-options` git configuration setting can be used to pass
parameters to rsync.