From ee291f6489e0fe3759da3163e3ae4fe44002e12e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: loredai Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:00:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- ...detecting_symlink_capability_in_CryFS.mdwn | 23 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/Git-annex_not_properly_detecting_symlink_capability_in_CryFS.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/Git-annex_not_properly_detecting_symlink_capability_in_CryFS.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Git-annex_not_properly_detecting_symlink_capability_in_CryFS.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e1d6fd57a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Git-annex_not_properly_detecting_symlink_capability_in_CryFS.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +### Please describe the problem. + +When creating a new git-annex repository (or upgrading, or doing fsck) inside a CryFS container (FUSE-based encrypted local filesystem, similiar to EncFS), git-annex goes into direct(or adjusted, in v6) mode despite CryFS working just fine with symlinks. + +Indeed, a created-outside-cryfs git-annex repository works as expected when copied inside + +### What steps will reproduce the problem? +1.) Install cryfs (https://www.cryfs.org/, packaged for ubuntu,debian, or build from source) +2.) Create a CryFS container: $ cryfs container container-data +3.) Create a git annex repository inside the container: + +$ cd container +$ git init . +$ git annex init --version 6 + + +### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? +git-annex-6.20170519-1.fc26.x86_64 + +### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders) + +I love git-annex. +