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What do you think of the ability to transfer a file between unrelated annexes? With "migrate" already taken, I would suggest "catapult" (or "teleport")!
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git annex catapult dir1/ $HOME/otherannex/somedir/
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git annex catapult dir2/thisfile.jpg $HOME/otherannex/somedir/
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git-annex would then:
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* Get list of present files
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* Copy the file to temporary space in $HOME/otherannex/.git/annex
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* fsck file
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* Move file to $HOME/otherannex/.git/annnex/objects
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* Create symlinks/directories in $HOME/otherannex/somedir/
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* Stage symlinks
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* Drop content and rm symlink
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with the usual modifiers (e.g. --fast would skip the fsck, --force to skip non-present files?).
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Reason I ask: I have a huge annex from importing the contents of a bunch of random harddrives and will eventually sort the contents into various other annexes I can put files into (personal, general family, specific people). Having git-annex guiding and checking the transfers from the sorting annex to the individual ones would be really nice.
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Not having this isn't a showstopper (I can use rsync) so no worries if you don't think it is worth it or think it is but put it on the backburner :) Would just be a nice-to-have.
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> So I get the feeling you found a way to do this in a script using
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> lower-level parts of git-annex. Closing on that basis, but feel free to
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> reopen if I'm wrong. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
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>> Adding the source annex as a cache
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>> ([[tips/local_caching_of_annexed_files/]]) and then adding the
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>> symlinks to the local annex allows the content to be transferred with
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>> all of the safeguards one usually gets from git-annex, but without
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>> the merging of the repositories.
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>> This is also very clean as the source annex doesn't get included in
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>> the location tracking.
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>> This works *really well* for me (even better than the script I was
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>> using!), so happy with this being closed. -- [[CandyAngel]]
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