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# NAME
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git-annex filter-process - long running git filter process for git-annex
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# SYNOPSIS
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git annex filter-process
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# DESCRIPTION
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When this is not enabled, each file that git wants to filter involves
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starting up a new `git-annex smudge` process. Starting many such processes
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for many files can be slow, and can make commands like `git checkout` and
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`git add` slow when they are operating on a lot of files. (A lot of locked
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annexed files do not make `git checkout` slow, but unlocked files and
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non-annexed files do slow it down.)
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On the other hand when this is enabled, `git add` of a large file does an
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unnecessary extra read of the file, and pipes its contents into git-annex.
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So when this is enabled, it will be faster to use `git-annex add` to add
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large files to the annex, rather than `git add`. Other commands that
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add files, like `git commit -a`, are also impacted by this.
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This is used by default in git-annex repositories v9 and above, while
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v8 repositories use `git-annex smudge` for backwards compatability with
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older versions of git-annex.
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To enable this in a v8 repository, run:
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git config filter.annex.process 'git-annex filter-process'
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To disable it, you can just unset the config:
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git config --unset filter.annex.process
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There will be no visible difference in behavior between enabling this and
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not, besides changes in speed and memory use when using git.
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# OPTIONS
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* The [[git-annex-common-options]](1) can be used.
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# SEE ALSO
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[[git-annex]](1)
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[[git-annex-smudge]](1)
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# AUTHOR
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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care.
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