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Joey Hess 2011-06-20 13:19:08 -04:00
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@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ Let's use one branch per uuid, named git-annex/$UUID.
branches?
- A given repo only ever writes to its UUID branch. So no conflicts.
- **problem**: git annex move needs to update log info for other repos!
(possibly solvable by having git-annex-shell update the log info
when content is moved using it)
- (BTW, UUIDs probably don't compress well, and this reduces the bloat of having
them repeated lots of times in the tree.)
- Per UUID branches mean that if it wants to find a file's location
@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ with a indication of the presense/absense of the key is found.
or transfered.
- It could get pretty slow when digging deeper.
- Only 3 places in git-annex will be affected by any slowdown: move --from,
get and drop.
get and drop. (Update: Now also unused, whereis, fsck)
## alternate
@ -109,7 +111,7 @@ which could get expensive.
## way outside the box approach
Another approach I have been mulling over is keeping the log file
branch checked out in .git-annex/logs/ -- this would be a checkout of a git
branch checked out in .git/annex/logs/ -- this would be a checkout of a git
repository inside a git repository, using "git fake bare" techniques. This
would solve the merge problem, since git auto merge could be used. It would
still mean all the log files are on-disk, which annoys some. It would