git-annex/doc/todo/prevent_unwanted_init.mdwn
Joey Hess 3cc94c1667
.noannex file
A top-level .noannex file will prevent git-annex init from being used in a
repository. This is useful for repositories that have a policy reason not
to use git-annex. The content of the file will be displayed to the user who
tries to run git-annex init.

This also affects git annex reinit and initialization via the webapp.
It does not affect automatic inits, when there's a sibling git-annex branch
already.

This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
2017-12-13 14:34:32 -04:00

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My $HOME is a git repo, but I don't want to use git-annex in that repo,
only in sub-repos. If I'm in ~/tmp/foo/ and forgot to git init, git annex
init initializes my $HOME repo, and I have to go clean it up which is
annoying. --[[Joey]]
This could be a git configuration setting, or it could be something
checked into the repo. Either might make sense depending on the scope
in which one wants to prevent the accidental init.
> [[done]] using .noannex file. --[[Joey]]