Back home. I have some 170 messages of backlog to attend to. Rather than digging into that on my first day back, I spent some time implementing some new features.

git annex import has grown three options that help managing importing of duplicate files in different ways. I started work on that last week, but didn't have time to find a way to avoid the --deduplicate option checksumming each imported file twice. Unfortunately, I have still not found a way I'm happy with, so it works but is not as efficient as it could be.

git annex mirror is a new command suggested to me by someone at DebConf (they don't seem to have filed the requested todo). It arranges for two repositories to contain the same set of files, as much as possible (when numcopies allows). So for example, git annex mirror --to otherdrive will make the otherdrive remote have the same files present and not present as the local repository.

I am thinking about expanding git annex sync with an option to also sync data. I know some find it confusing that it only syncs the git metadata and not the file contents. That still seems to me to be the best and most flexible behavior, and not one I want to change in any case since it would be most unexpected if git annex sync downloaded a lot of stuff you don't want. But I can see making git annex sync --data download all the file contents it can, as well as uploading all available file contents to each remote it syncs with. And git annex sync --data --auto limit that to only the preferred content. Although perhaps these command lines are too long to be usable?

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With the campaign more or less over, I only have a little over a week before it's time to dive into the first big item on the roadmap. Hope to be through the backlog by then.