forum/Links or actual files? Confused!git-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Links_or_actual_files__63___Confused__33__/git-annexikiwiki2013-11-27T22:47:37Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Links_or_actual_files__63___Confused__33__/comment_1_779cee2448d7070b1dd636d01296c01e/joeyh.name2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-09-12T17:58:24Z
When you create a git-annex repository using the webapp, it uses <a href="http://git-annex.branchable.com/direct_mode/">direct mode</a>. That is not the default if you create a repository by hand at the command line, although you can enable it if you prefer it.
webapp/directhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Links_or_actual_files__63___Confused__33__/comment_2_bccda88697ab7beec0b9fe9ee0230688/Rachel2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-09-12T18:17:51Z
<p>well, i did it using the webapp both times; i've barely scratched at the git-annex commandline so far.</p>
<p>However... I then tried to repeat it on another linux box (running ubuntu saucy and the version of git-annex in that repo) and it worked as expected: Real files in the annex directory, ie: as I understand it, direct mode.</p>
<p>So, went back to the first linux box (running ubuntu raring), and cleared everything off, quit and started again, doing the same thing again, and <em>it</em> did the direct mode thing itself this time.</p>
<p>Which I think leaves me with it the way I want it. <img src="http://git-annex.branchable.com/smileys/smile.png" alt=":-)" /></p>
<p>My only guess is, maybe it got set up in non-direct mode when I first started using the older git-annex in the raring repos, before failing with the bad comment in ssh public key bug, at which point I switched to the downloaded-today tarball and just tried to resume. Starting from scratch with the newer version worked.</p>
<p>I'm sure more questions to come later; am a Dropbox fugitive by way of ownCloud (won't-fix bug on version upgrades) basically trying to replicate that kind of convenience. But those are for other postings.</p>
comment 3http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Links_or_actual_files__63___Confused__33__/comment_3_c2a9da3f03b55ff294dc0d2010380119/joeyh.name2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-09-12T20:22:44Z
Yep, relatively ancient (from last year) versions of the webapp didn't use direct mode by default, and have various bugs as well.