I personally really see the value in utilizing the metadata driven views, like for organizing which of my podcasts i have and have not listened to, or for tagging images and being able to filter off those tags. However, my annex is very large and when i try to generate these views it takes several minutes just to generate a single view, which in most cases i come to find out that I typed the name of an included directory wrong and need to regenerate a different view. Is there anyway for one to limit what files/directories the view generator scans through? like if i wanted to show all the tags i have associated with my podcasts, then to limit that search to just my podcasts directory
It's possible to limit a view to a subdirectory, by using something like
git annex view 'foo/=*'It might still take a while to generate that view, but once you're in that view, you can use
git annex vfilterto further filter to tags, and it will only look at the files from the subdirectory, so will run faster. Andgit annex vpopwill quickly undo a view change.