Hello. This is in the git-annex usage case called "the nomad":
When she has 1 bar on her cell, Alice queues up interesting files on her server for later. At a coffee shop, she has git-annex download them to her USB drive.
Every time I read this, it makes me think that it would be possible to "tag" a number of files, and then get them all in one go when they are made available. This would be quite useful since I don't always remember what files I wanted when I plug in the external HD and I don't always go get the HD when I remember one more file that would be convenient to have.
Unfortunately I never did find a way of achieving this (not on the command line). Perhaps I could use the preferred content to achieve that effect, but it does not seem as convenient as something like an hypothetical git-annex get --delayed filename1 filename2.
Could someone suggest a way of doing this? Thank you very much. I'm still learning this neat tool.
When I wrote that, I was thinking of something more like, you have a clone of your repository on the server, and you run
git annex addurlsshed into there. Then you can just rungit annex get(or move) on the client later to download all the queued stuff.But, you can in fact tag files and operate on them like you're thinking of.
I see what you mean about the
addurl. Using tags is quite a clever method. Thank you. I'm not yet using metadata, but I plan to do so one of these days. git-annex keeps providing nice surprises. Thank you.