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how to remove files and symlinks but keep historical file contents
Posted Sun May 19 20:45:36 2013
Check when your last fsck was?
Posted Sun May 19 18:41:34 2013
exclude files from annex
Posted Fri May 17 21:20:42 2013
Running assistant steps manually
Posted Fri May 17 00:54:50 2013
nntp/usenet special remote
Posted Thu May 16 09:40:37 2013
How do I dropunused with an rsync remote?
Posted Sun May 12 23:05:48 2013
Cleaning up after aborted sync in direct mode
Posted Fri May 10 00:12:44 2013
Problems syncing with box.com
Posted Thu May 9 20:26:44 2013
Does migrate ensure data integrity?
Posted Wed May 8 12:15:15 2013
Accessing files in bare repository
Posted Wed May 8 06:15:58 2013
first-time setup git-annex
Posted Wed May 8 02:13:19 2013
annexed file key for web remote with SHA256E backend
Posted Sat May 4 09:36:36 2013
webapp listen port with autostart
Posted Wed May 1 19:55:20 2013
managing multiple repositories
Posted Thu Apr 25 09:17:13 2013
Not sure how to get my s3 remote back
Posted Wed Apr 24 19:07:22 2013
Cannot launch webapp on ubuntu 12.04 using ppa
Posted Tue Apr 23 06:58:45 2013
Need some help to fix my repository
Posted Mon Apr 22 19:47:13 2013
My first impressions after some weeks with git-annex assistant
Posted Mon Apr 22 19:02:05 2013
git-annex build for Nokia N9 (Meego Harmattan) and Sailfish OS
Posted Mon Apr 22 10:03:01 2013
Automatically syncronise centralised repository
Posted Sun Apr 21 03:33:02 2013
git-annex across two filesystems
Posted Fri Apr 19 15:14:20 2013
Using for Music repo
Posted Thu Apr 18 17:33:57 2013
Same Jabber account for different annexes
Posted Thu Apr 11 09:56:20 2013
Drop with assistant
Posted Thu Apr 11 07:11:03 2013
Transfer remotes
Posted Thu Apr 11 06:27:16 2013
wishlist: get/drop via webapp file explorer
Posted Wed Apr 10 15:32:00 2013
XMPP authentication failure
Posted Tue Apr 9 09:08:22 2013
Add a "local" remote
Posted Sun Apr 7 19:35:17 2013
Wishlist: rename files/dirs w/ special characters if filesystem is FAT
Posted Sat Apr 6 21:03:09 2013
Howto remove unused files
Posted Tue Apr 2 18:41:12 2013
Stupid mistake: recoverable?
Posted Mon Apr 1 09:45:49 2013
"unable to resolve reference refs/heads/git-annex"
Posted Mon Apr 1 08:51:32 2013
Will git-annex solve my problem?
Posted Wed Mar 27 22:43:27 2013
Direct special remotes
Posted Tue Mar 19 23:10:57 2013
Local and remote in direct mode
Posted Tue Mar 19 08:28:05 2013
Check if remote is using GPG?
Posted Sun Mar 17 17:39:32 2013
Post-Kickstarter
Posted Sun Mar 17 03:23:24 2013
Managing multiple repositories concurrently?
Posted Sun Mar 17 01:55:43 2013
Howto remove a repository?
Posted Sat Mar 16 21:43:21 2013
Centralized repository with webapp
Posted Mon Mar 11 11:40:04 2013
Ubuntu PPA
Posted Fri Mar 8 19:19:46 2013
git-remote-gcrypt
Posted Thu Mar 7 17:30:32 2013
Difference between copy, move and get?
Posted Wed Mar 6 03:05:57 2013
syncing home directories
Posted Tue Mar 5 17:09:11 2013
Out of memory error in fsck, whereis, find and status cmds
Posted Sun Mar 3 10:10:27 2013
assistant without watch?
Posted Fri Feb 22 09:26:45 2013
git-annex and tagfs
Posted Wed Feb 20 12:07:24 2013
Different annexes pointing to same special remote?
Posted Wed Feb 13 05:12:40 2013
Make whereis output more compact
Posted Mon Feb 11 09:52:09 2013
Feature request: webapp support for centralized bare repos
Posted Mon Feb 11 01:43:48 2013
Does Jabber syncing work when the buddy is offline?
Posted Mon Feb 11 01:40:58 2013
Feature request: Multiple concurrent transfers
Posted Sun Feb 10 11:25:52 2013
Feature request: git annex copy --auto does the right thing
Posted Fri Feb 8 06:27:58 2013
Watch/assistant/webapp documentation
Posted Thu Feb 7 09:58:08 2013
Let watch selectively annex files
Posted Thu Feb 7 09:48:22 2013
use existing ssh keys?
Posted Wed Feb 6 20:23:25 2013
question about assistant and /archive/
Posted Wed Jan 30 17:23:42 2013
switching backends
Posted Mon Jan 28 01:53:42 2013
recovering from repo corruption
Posted Sat Jan 26 06:41:50 2013
archaeology of deleted files
Posted Fri Jan 25 13:29:57 2013
something really good happened with 3.20130124
Posted Fri Jan 25 04:05:39 2013
What is the difference between "local computer" and "remote server"
Posted Wed Jan 23 02:37:10 2013
switching to/from direct mode while assistant is running
Posted Mon Jan 21 20:36:54 2013
one or many annexes?
Posted Mon Jan 21 17:51:57 2013
Repo accessible from "dumb" client without git-annex
Posted Sun Jan 20 16:06:43 2013
How to prevent the assistant from downloading all data?
Posted Sat Jan 19 20:23:41 2013
How to delete a remote?
Posted Sat Jan 19 19:41:54 2013
How to rename a remote?
Posted Fri Jan 18 10:13:49 2013
Building a Debian package of git-annex
Posted Wed Jan 16 21:30:22 2013
Running assistant on a server (no X available)
Posted Wed Jan 16 20:42:39 2013
No SSL traffic for S3?
Posted Tue Jan 15 00:26:00 2013
Syncronisation of syncronisation between 3 repositories?
Posted Sun Jan 13 15:21:13 2013
Detached git work tree?
Posted Sun Jan 13 05:18:41 2013
Assistant not syncing to Rsync
Posted Thu Jan 10 18:32:53 2013
OpenOffice / Libre Office
Posted Wed Jan 2 18:53:55 2013
multiple urls for the same UUID
Posted Sun Dec 30 01:26:03 2012
Calculating Annex Cost by Ping Times
Posted Sun Dec 30 01:21:33 2012
Best way to manage files on removable media?
Posted Sat Dec 22 16:55:36 2012
preferred content settings for multiple symlinks
Posted Thu Dec 20 15:54:45 2012
assistant overzealously moving stuff to other repos
Posted Wed Dec 19 15:21:13 2012
New user misunderstandings
Posted Mon Dec 17 14:53:36 2012
Storing uncontrolled files in an annex
Posted Sat Dec 15 22:32:51 2012
How to retroactively annex a file already in a git repo
Posted Sat Dec 15 14:06:24 2012
Compression in special remotes (specifically S3)?
Posted Fri Dec 14 17:57:40 2012
External drive syncs git-annex branch but not master branch
Posted Sat Dec 8 10:51:06 2012
gadu - git-annex disk usage
Posted Sat Dec 8 06:21:18 2012
Use reflinks on BTRFS instead of symlinks ?
Posted Fri Dec 7 13:55:08 2012
Can't install: Mac OS 10.8.2
Posted Thu Dec 6 17:50:49 2012
git annex alternative
Posted Thu Dec 6 13:19:50 2012
mistakenly checked *files* into an annex. bummer.
Posted Sun Dec 2 05:25:22 2012
updating the "number of copies"
Posted Fri Nov 30 17:11:26 2012
git-assistant clarification
Posted Fri Nov 30 05:32:26 2012
dot git slash annex slash tmp
Posted Thu Nov 29 15:25:31 2012
"du" equivalent on an annex?
Posted Wed Nov 28 20:59:38 2012
benefit of splitting a repository
Posted Wed Nov 28 14:44:05 2012
Synchronize large files (VM images)
Posted Wed Nov 28 14:38:51 2012
Moving large files within the repo without copying ?
Posted Wed Nov 28 11:47:46 2012
The ability to leave a file unlocked for a bit while committing it repeatedly?
Posted Tue Nov 27 18:39:10 2012
man pages in the prebuilt linux tarball
Posted Tue Nov 27 14:32:45 2012
Setup of rsync special remote with non-standard ssh port
Posted Thu Nov 22 20:07:02 2012
How to restore symlinks
Posted Wed Nov 21 14:56:33 2012
Special remote without chmod
Posted Mon Nov 19 21:46:48 2012
Building git-annex-3.20121112-19309
Posted Sun Nov 18 09:11:17 2012
Push/Pull with the Assistant
Posted Thu Nov 15 18:19:20 2012
Default text/html handler
Posted Tue Nov 13 14:34:09 2012
XMPP email setup says wrong password but it's correct. Can I provide some kind of debug data?
Posted Tue Nov 13 13:42:55 2012
get and copy with bare repositories
Posted Mon Nov 12 23:07:23 2012
Does git-annex version big files?
Posted Fri Nov 9 18:38:28 2012
Removing files not found by git annex unused
Posted Fri Nov 9 14:25:17 2012
Unlock files when assistant is running?
Posted Thu Nov 8 22:23:57 2012
How to set up two assistants with one shared transfer repository?
Posted Thu Nov 8 17:51:38 2012
Simple check out with assistant?
Posted Thu Nov 8 08:33:57 2012
Unknown remote type S3
Posted Wed Nov 7 18:32:23 2012
Restricting git-annex-shell to a specific repository
Posted Sun Nov 4 18:22:53 2012
Syncing machines on different networks
Posted Thu Nov 1 21:37:12 2012
safely dropping git-annex history
Posted Wed Oct 31 14:27:46 2012
Using "sync" to sink all branches?
Posted Mon Oct 29 12:36:07 2012
special remote for IMAP
Posted Fri Oct 26 14:25:22 2012
recover deleted files ?
Posted Wed Oct 24 21:10:55 2012
shared cipher tries to use gpg
Posted Tue Oct 23 19:17:10 2012
New git-annex integration mode for Emacs users
Posted Sat Oct 20 19:06:24 2012
Managing a large number of files archived on many pieces of read-only medium (E.G. DVDs)
Posted Sat Oct 20 18:03:59 2012
Managing multiple annexes with assistant?
Posted Fri Oct 19 01:38:16 2012
Why does the bup remote use ~/.bup?
Posted Thu Oct 18 07:04:12 2012
Truly purging dead repositories
Posted Wed Oct 17 22:27:50 2012
Don't understand local vs. known keys
Posted Wed Oct 17 07:48:21 2012
Can't init git annex
Posted Tue Oct 16 02:41:35 2012
Can't get pairing to work
Posted Thu Oct 11 21:52:35 2012
Pushing git repo to AWS S3 from behind proxy
Posted Wed Oct 10 17:49:52 2012
Using Linux static builds
Posted Tue Oct 9 10:07:11 2012
special remote for iPods
Posted Thu Oct 4 13:26:00 2012
linux standalone tarballs
Posted Sat Sep 29 11:25:58 2012
Trouble installing from cabal on debian-testing
Posted Tue Sep 25 15:49:28 2012
First attempt at an OSX launcher (.app)
Posted Sun Sep 23 09:39:50 2012
Error adding ssh remote in assistant
Posted Sat Sep 22 08:27:32 2012
git annex failing to get non-English filenames. Rsync problem?
Posted Fri Sep 21 21:37:21 2012
How does one change git-annex assistant's web browser?
Posted Mon Sep 17 12:49:44 2012
Don't understand how to delete/recover files
Posted Sat Sep 15 20:19:38 2012
one annex versus many annexes?
Posted Tue Sep 11 02:51:24 2012
Weird behavior with OS X Finder and Preview.app
Posted Fri Sep 7 19:46:58 2012
multiple sym links (for tagging photos)?
Posted Wed Sep 5 18:07:06 2012
Cabal: Could not resolve dependencies (yesod)
Posted Wed Aug 29 08:27:39 2012
Problem compiling current master
Posted Wed Aug 29 06:48:43 2012
DBus on Ubuntu 12.04?
Posted Sat Aug 25 08:22:20 2012
How to define an alternative remote url for a git remote repository?
Posted Tue Aug 21 09:39:27 2012
[Installation] base-3.0.3.2 requires syb ==0.1.0.2
Posted Thu Aug 16 23:35:47 2012
cannot fetch from (gpg-encrypted) rsync remote on MacOSX
Posted Tue Aug 7 12:13:24 2012
public-web-frontend
Posted Sun Aug 5 16:33:34 2012
Delete unused files/metadata
Posted Thu Aug 2 23:01:15 2012
Git repositories in the annex?
Posted Thu Aug 2 23:00:54 2012
DS_Store files are not added
Posted Thu Aug 2 22:56:11 2012
git unannex speed
Posted Thu Aug 2 14:22:28 2012
Wishlist: Don't make files readonly
Posted Mon Jul 30 23:58:44 2012
Looking at the webapp on OSX
Posted Thu Jul 26 18:06:30 2012
Fixing up corrupt annexes
Posted Tue Jul 24 19:08:10 2012
"next time Im online I would like to have file x y z"
Posted Thu Jul 19 13:56:02 2012
pulling from encrypted remote
Posted Tue Jul 10 16:52:31 2012
Wishlist: options for syncing meta-data and data
Posted Fri Jul 6 08:48:10 2012
Wishlist: mark remotes offline
Posted Fri Jul 6 08:10:00 2012
Problems using submodules with git-annex?
Posted Thu Jul 5 08:04:53 2012
Wishlist: getting the disk used by a subtree of files
Posted Wed Jun 27 06:50:41 2012
Wishlist: logging to file when running as a daemon (for the assistant)
Posted Sat Jun 23 07:02:14 2012
Wishlist: automatic reinject
Posted Tue Jun 19 07:08:44 2012
exporting annexed files
Posted Fri Jun 15 18:57:08 2012
autobuilders for git-annex to aid development
Posted Sun Jun 10 08:58:48 2012
Debugging Git Annex
Posted Mon Jun 4 17:28:37 2012
Automatic `git annex get` after invalidation of local files due to external modification?
Posted Mon Jun 4 03:41:57 2012
Getting started with Amazon S3
Posted Tue May 29 13:23:57 2012
What happened to the walkthrough?
Posted Thu May 24 18:14:12 2012
Moving older version's file content without doing checkout
Posted Tue May 15 02:42:31 2012
Git Annex Transfer Protocols
Posted Thu May 10 13:14:50 2012
Making git-annex less necessary
Posted Mon May 7 21:57:57 2012
Windows support
Posted Wed May 2 00:27:52 2012
retrieving previous versions
Posted Tue Apr 24 21:10:28 2012
What can be done in case of conflict
Posted Mon Apr 23 04:03:16 2012
error in installation of base-4.5.0.0
Posted Sun Apr 22 05:28:21 2012
"permission denied" in fsck on shared repo
Posted Sat Apr 21 15:07:47 2012
fail to git annex add some files: getFileStatus: does not exist(v 3.20111231)
Posted Thu Apr 12 15:42:26 2012
Problem with bup: cannot lock refs
Posted Wed Apr 11 09:36:34 2012
How to handle the git-annex branch?
Posted Tue Apr 10 15:01:35 2012
tell us how you're using git-annex
Posted Thu Mar 29 01:05:12 2012 by Joey
Sharing annex with local clones
Posted Mon Mar 19 18:06:29 2012
post-copy/sync hook
Posted Wed Mar 14 11:09:32 2012
windows port?
Posted Mon Mar 12 05:16:28 2012
Please fix compatibility with ghc 7.0
Posted Sun Mar 11 09:22:57 2012
Automatic commit messages for git annex sync
Posted Fri Feb 24 20:28:19 2012
nfs mounted repo results in errors on drop/move
Posted Fri Feb 24 17:47:01 2012
fsck gives false positives
Posted Tue Feb 14 16:34:26 2012
How to expire old versions of files that have been edited?
Posted Thu Feb 9 18:31:03 2012
cloud services to support
Posted Wed Jan 25 21:39:52 2012
Preserving file access rights in directory tree below objects/
Posted Mon Jan 23 18:38:13 2012
unlock/lock always gets me
Posted Fri Jan 6 22:14:35 2012
Auto archiving
Posted Wed Jan 4 03:44:52 2012
git-subtree support?
Posted Tue Jan 3 16:38:46 2012
Handling web special remote when content changes?
Posted Tue Jan 3 00:43:54 2012
vlc and git-annex
Posted Thu Dec 22 19:33:11 2011
A really stupid question
Posted Tue Dec 20 22:36:03 2011
using git annex to merge and synchronize 2 directories (like unison)
Posted Sun Dec 18 09:35:39 2011
syncing non-git trees with git-annex
Posted Tue Dec 13 23:26:58 2011
pure git-annex only workflow
Posted Fri Dec 9 20:47:00 2011
git pull remote git-annex
Posted Tue Dec 6 13:36:35 2011
git annex add crash and subsequent recovery
Posted Tue Dec 6 12:43:56 2011
Podcast syncing use-case
Posted Thu Nov 24 01:59:45 2011
--print0 option as in "find"
Posted Mon Nov 21 22:24:04 2011
git annex ls / metadata in git annex whereis
Posted Mon Nov 14 22:30:02 2011
Recommended number of repositories
Posted Thu Nov 3 23:53:51 2011
confusion with remotes, map
Posted Mon Oct 17 18:51:39 2011
git tag missing for 3.20111011
Posted Thu Oct 13 14:52:42 2011
location tracking cleanup
Posted Fri Sep 30 04:32:23 2011
advantages of SHA* over WORM
Posted Mon Aug 29 12:35:18 2011
version 3 upgrade
Posted Wed Aug 10 16:56:51 2011
Can I store normal files in the git-annex git repository?
Posted Wed Jul 13 10:35:18 2011
example of massively disconnected operation
Posted Fri Jul 8 03:39:21 2011
Wishlist: Is it possible to "unlock" files without copying the file data?
Posted Wed Jul 6 20:39:10 2011
Wishlist: Ways of selecting files based on meta-information
Posted Mon Jun 13 10:13:47 2011
incompatible versions?
Posted Wed Jun 8 00:22:56 2011
new microfeatures
Posted Wed Jun 1 17:08:14 2011
"git annex lock" very slow for big repo
Posted Tue May 31 17:47:13 2011
tips: special_remotes/hook with tahoe-lafs
Posted Fri Apr 29 10:33:27 2011
Error while adding a file "createSymbolicLink: already exists"
Posted Thu Apr 28 23:38:36 2011
Need new build instructions for Debian stable
Posted Tue Apr 26 13:06:58 2011
sparse git checkouts with annex
Posted Thu Apr 7 08:03:12 2011
bainstorming: git annex push & pull
Posted Tue Apr 5 20:09:53 2011
Problems with large numbers of files
Posted Tue Apr 5 04:37:52 2011
getting git annex to do a force copy to a remote
Posted Sun Apr 3 12:39:50 2011
performance improvement: git on ssd, annex on spindle disk
Posted Fri Apr 1 23:00:53 2011
git-annex communication channels
Posted Mon Mar 28 15:31:52 2011
batch check on remote when using copy
Posted Sun Mar 27 20:11:20 2011
Behaviour of fsck
Posted Thu Mar 24 16:25:44 2011
OSX's default sshd behaviour has limited paths set
Posted Sat Mar 19 15:31:08 2011
OSX's haskell-platform statically links things
Posted Sat Mar 19 15:31:08 2011
Is an automagic upgrade of the object directory safe?
Posted Thu Mar 17 15:44:27 2011
seems to build fine on haskell platform 2011
Posted Tue Mar 15 08:38:53 2011
hashing objects directories
Posted Mon Mar 14 08:10:08 2011
Will git annex work on a FAT32 formatted key?
Posted Mon Mar 7 17:21:54 2011
rsync over ssh?
Posted Sun Mar 6 02:34:51 2011
migrate existing git repository to git-annex
Posted Wed Feb 23 09:49:34 2011
relying on git for numcopies
Posted Mon Feb 21 19:01:31 2011
can git-annex replace ddm?
Posted Mon Feb 14 21:06:55 2011
unannex alternatives
Posted Tue Feb 1 23:39:12 2011
migration to git-annex and rsync
Posted Wed Jan 19 17:43:16 2011
working without git-annex commits
Posted Mon Dec 20 15:48:58 2010
git-annex on OSX
Posted Sun Nov 14 18:09:44 2010