Hi,
I am looking into using git-annex to sync my Music between 3 sources: desktop, laptop, backup, but I'm not sure if this will work ok.
I notice on the wiki that: "Normally, the content of files in the annex is prevented from being modified. That's a good thing, because it might be the only copy, you wouldn't want to lose it in a fumblefingered mistake."
But most music players will download artwork, and some of course will dynamically modify/rename files according to meta data. And I may be downloading and/or playing music on both the desktop and laptop. So obviously I wouldn't want to be manually unlocking individual files here. It would kinda interrupt the music listening experience. So how would this work?
I am assuming that I would always have to do a git annex add .mp3 .flac *.jpg before doing a git annex sync. But can I just keep everything unlocked? Any side effects here? Will this work or should I just use rsync?
Regards,
bk
You can use direct mode to keep all files unlocked all the time.
You can use the ?code> command replace all files with pointer file. to automatically commit whatever changes are made to the directory, as well as automatically sync them to your other computers.
Thanks Joey! Anyway I see that with Fedora, I don't have the 'assistant'. I don't even seem to have the 'direct mode'. Also tried to do a cabal install git-annex, but ran into dependency hell. Oh well, this is goin on the back burner for a while. Looks very promising though!
Boyd
[root@zbox Music]# git annex direct git-annex: Unknown command 'direct'
Did you mean one of these? reinject
[root@zbox Music]# git annex version git-annex version: 3.20120615 local repository version: 3 default repository version: 3 supported repository versions: 3 upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 [root@zbox Music]#