Hi!
What is the best way to add again the content of file in an direct and crippled annex repository? I'm using such a repository on a SMB drive, with no symbolic links, that's why the repository is in direct mode.
For example:
/disk/annex-rep/a.bin contains the text ../.git/annex/objects/W3/M8/SHA256E-s4701522386--e486cce01b1870cee394a376a3acc64a608e84e38b85e6c21c29721cf14328e6.bin/SHA256E-s4701522386--e486cce01b1870cee394a376a3acc64a608e84e38b85e6c21c29721cf14328e6.bin
and I've got the real content in another directory, outside annex: /disk/a.bin (contains the binary data)
I imagined this process:
* replace /disk/annex-rep/a.bin with /disk/a.bin``
* updategit-annex:122/4b8/SHA256E-s4701522386--e486cce01b1870cee394a376a3acc64a608e84e38b85e6c21c29721cf14328e6.bin.log` by adding this repository uuid
I tried git annex reinject but it didn't work.
Is there another way?
There's a bug report asking that reinject work in direct mode. I just have not gotten around to it.
Another way to do it would be to make a temp directory in your annex repository, move or copy the file to there, and
git annex add. As long as you're not using the WORM backend, the checksum will be used, and so it'll see it's added the content of the file, and make the a.bin file have that content too.Off to see if I can easily add direct mode reinject now..