I'm using git-annex to sync my photos across multiple computers, and it works beautifully. I would also like to sync Lightroom catalogues. The photo editing program creates a *.lrdata directory where it stores the edits in its own tree format. Merging two such directories obviously creates a mess.
Is there an elegant way to tell git-annex to treat the whole directory as a single file and overwrite the whole directory structure at once? I'm guessing the same problem occurs with mac os packages.
Many thanks! Alex
.gitignoreI had the same problem an got Lightroom to work nicely with the following configuration.
Place catalog and photo data in the same directory tree, for example:
Now the image data and Lightroom metadata (= catalog) can be archived at the same time. In order to prevent temporary files and previews to get annexed use the following
.gitignore:The downside is that previews will have to get regenerated on other machines which pull this data, but I don't use it to share my Lightroom config across computers but as an archival tool.