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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Lukey"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/c7c08e2efd29c692cc017c4a4ca3406b"
subject="comment 3"
date="2021-01-02T15:05:01Z"
content="""
You can of course just use `~/Pictures` directly as a repository. So `cd ~/Pictures; git init; git annex init`.
`git annex sync` does a little more things than just `git commit`. For example, it also automatically commits deletion of files.
Sorry, I thought the existing copies of your Photos where just backups of your `~/Pictures`. In that case I suggest you to `mv` the files into the annex and then just `git annex add` them. For DVD's import to a sub-directory of your master branch instead of a dummy branch and without the `--no-content` option.
\"Too many files\" depends on you liking. The more files the slower some operations get, like `git annex sync`. I suggest you to set something like `git annex config --set annex.largefiles 'largerthan=32kb'`. This way, small files get added to git itself instead of git-annex, which speeds up git-annex operations if there are a lot of small files. Note that these small files will be in every clone of the repo and can't be `git annex drop`ed.
The various configuration options are documented in the main [[git-annex]] manpage, at the bottom. Without the `annex.dotfiles` option, dotfiles (any file starting with \".\" and anything inside directories starting with \".\") will still be added, but to git itself with the disadvantages mentioned above.
You can get the key/hash for that file with `git annex info <file>`, and then search for other files with the same content with `find . -lname '*<key>'`.
You can just `cp/mv` the files in the annex and `git annex add` them. Note that for duplicate files in the annex, only one copy of the data/file content will be stored.
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