I don't see anywhere in the documentation that specifies this, but git-annex hasn't been syncing any kind of compressed file for me like zip files or 7z compressed files. Haven't tried gzip files. It has been working fine with other files like PDFs, video, images etc. Was wanting to know if that is expected behaviour or if something is wrong?
git-annex doesn't differentiate between different sorts of files in any way.
Are you sure you're adding these compressed files to the repo?
Using assistant on a folder. Any files that are dropped in that folder will immediately be synced as far as I can tell except for a couple of zip files. I turned on debug logging to look at it, and it looks like the watcher is not being called when the zip file is being copied into the folder, but is when the file is being removed from the folder. Compared to when a regular file is dropped into the folder where it will run without issue:
I did end up leaving the zip in the folder, but I have tried in different subfolders and different zips, just not tar.gzs...
yes, this is arch linux. It seems to be more of an issue of the extension, I was toying with a zip file and renaming it and like if the extension was zipper then it would sync the file. It would not sync the file if it was named with gz. Was messing with inotifywatch and it is seeing the zip file creation:
On successful files syncing will show the hashed annex folders