On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 11:18:05 -0400 Joey Hess <j...@kitenet.net> wrote:
> Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > > I think having support for this in git-annex would be very useful, > > even if it's not that efficient: if this can be dealt with in > > git-annex, individual "higherlevel" projects like sharebox and > > dvcs-autosync have less headaches. Not to mention > > sharebox/dvcs-autosync would need to do really inefficient things to > > deal with it anyway. (because they can't involve themselves into the > > actual git/dvcs tricks, they work on a higher level of abstraction), > > and it might also benefit some users who work with git-annex manually. > > How do you see this? How hard/cumbersome is it to implement this in > > git-annex? Why is it inefficient? It's not really clear to me after > > reading the smudge information on > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html > > http://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/smudge/ > > > > if toobig > > > then git_annex_add file > > > else git_add file > > > git_commit file > > > > unfortunately I don't think so: > > - with dvcs-autosync we often commit "early", as in, the file could still > > be in the process of being written to, or it could be modified again after > > we added it. > > From what I understand, we would need to forbid our users from changing the > > file after it is added to git-annex, and worse: if git-annex does its "move > > file, replace file with symlink" trick, while the user is writing to it, > > this might break things. > > You're right. However, you would also not want to commit many partial > versions of a large file as it was being written. Well, if it ever happens once, that's once too many. Since we're aiming for a dropbox-like near-instant-synchronisation system, the way of working is different then when using git for , say.. version controlling source code. So it _will_ happen that we commit versions of files as they are in the progress of being written. Even if the user decides to store something like a continuously being updated logfile in his dropbox-like system, I want to be able to support that. _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home