Please describe the problem.
I am fairly new to git annex - so I may have a misconception about how it should work.
I have two laptop clients A and B that each have a single ssh remote, server C, setup as a full backup. Both of the laptops were setup through the web and have the assistant running.
The problem I am seeing is that laptop A does not seem to sync contents created on laptop B. If i do the following:
laptopA# echo "foo" > bar
laptopB# cat bar
> foo
laptopB# echo "baz" > bang
laptopA# cat bang
> No such file or directory
Laptop A has the symlink for bang but no contents.
if i run the following:
laptopA# git annex find --want-get --not --in .
it returns 'bang'
So it seems that laptopA wants the contents of the file created on laptopB, but doesn't sync it. If I manually run git annex sync --content everything is good. But when running the assistant should I not care about this?
What steps will reproduce the problem?
See above.
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
laptopA: OSX 10.10
git-annex version: 5.20150205
build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV FsEvents XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA TorrentParser
key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E MD5E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 MD5 WORM URL
remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web bittorrent webdav tahoe glacier ddar hook external
local repository version: 5
supported repository version: 5
upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 4
laptopB: Archlinux
git-annex version: 5.20150219-g7751a05
build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 Inotify DBus DesktopNotify XMPP DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA TorrentParser
key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E MD5E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 MD5 WORM URL
remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web bittorrent glacier ddar hook external
local repository version: 5
supported repository version: 5
upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 4
What version of git-annex is installed on laptopA?
If it's too old, it won't be getting change notifications from the server when laptopB pushes to it.
Since laptopB immediately notices pushes from laptopA, I guess that both laptopB and the server have new enough versions of git-annex for that change noitification to work.