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69 lines
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### Please describe the problem.
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I have a repo that I initialized in direct mode because i felt unconfortable with the "symlink forest" approach.
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Now that I prefer that, i want to switch back to indirect mode. The problem is, when I did that, I realized that some files in the repo were not writable by my user, and git annex indirect crashed, and didn't "indirect" all the files. Now the repo is in a "half-direct" state, and I seem to be unable to recover.
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### What steps will reproduce the problem?
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[[!format txt """
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git init
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git annex init
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git annex direct
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git annex add . # make sure some files are not writable by your user
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git annex indirect
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"""]]
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The `indirect` step will stop at the file that is not writable and will fail to move some files to `.git/annex`. And then the repo is in `indirect` mode yet some files are still not symlinks.
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Doing a `git annex direct` will try to commit all those nasty files into git, as it does a `git commit -a`.
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### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
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git-annex version: 4.20130912-ga1faca3
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build flags: Assistant Webapp Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV Inotify DBus XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi
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Debian wheezy.
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### Please provide any additional information below.
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Ideally, there would be a way to just tell git annex it's really still in direct mode and migrate the remaining files.
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The workaround is, obviously, to make sure you own all those files before messing around:
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chown -R you *
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chmod -R u+w *
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A [[patch]], maybe, that allows you to flip cleanly between the two modes:
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[[!format diff """
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From a21dfc97da96883b2a088bb5f3f466296f08d858 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Antoine=20Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@koumbit.org>
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:58:29 -0400
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Subject: [PATCH] do not commit -a when going back to direct mode
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without this, if we switched to indirect mode but failed doing so
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(because of a permission problem, for example), going back to
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direct mode will commit all files to git, which we really want
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to avoid.
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---
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Command/Direct.hs | 1 -
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1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Command/Direct.hs b/Command/Direct.hs
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index 7835988..ed8ea6c 100644
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--- a/Command/Direct.hs
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+++ b/Command/Direct.hs
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@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ perform = do
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showOutput
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_ <- inRepo $ Git.Command.runBool
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[ Param "commit"
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- , Param "-a"
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, Param "-m"
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, Param "commit before switching to direct mode"
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]
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--
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1.7.10.4
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"""]]
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