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When using the [[/assistant]] on some of my repositories, I would like to
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retain manual control over the granularity and contents of the commit
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history. Some motivating reasons:
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* manually specified commit messages makes the history easier to follow
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* make a series of minor changes to a file over a period of a few hours would result in a single commit rather than capturing intermediate incomplete edits
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* manual choice of which files to annex (based on predicted usage) could be useful, e.g. a repo might contain a 4MB PDF which you want available in *every* remote even without `git annex get`, and also some 2MB images which are only required in some remotes
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> This particular case is now catered to by the ["manual" repository group](/preferred_content/standard_groups/)
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> in [[preferred content]] settings. --[[Joey]]
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Obviously this needs to be configurable at least per repository, and
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ideally perhaps even per remote, since usage habits can vary from machine
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to machine (e.g. I could choose to commit manually from my desktop machine
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which has a nice comfy keyboard and large screen, but this would be too
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much pain to do from my tiny netbook).
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In fact, this is vaguely related to [[design/assistant/partial_content]],
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since the usefulness of the commit history depends on the context of the
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data being manipulated, which in turn depends on which subdirectories are
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being touched. So any mechanism for disabling sync per directory could
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potentially be reused for disabling auto-commit per directory.
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According to Joey, it should be easy to arrange for the watcher thread not
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to run, but would need some more work for the assistant to notice manual
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commits in order to sync them; however the assistant already does some
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crazy inotify watching of git refs, in order to detect incoming pushes, so
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detecting manual commits wouldn't be a stretch.
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[[!tag design/assistant]]
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> You can do this now by pausing committing via the webapp,
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> or setting `annex.autocommit=false`.
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> The assistant probably doesn't push such commits yet.
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