Hello,
I'm not sure about the differences and interactions between watch / assistant / webapp / direct mode. I think I figured the following out, can someone confirm this, and perhaps a few words to the documentation / man page?
- git annex watch uses inotify to find new files, and runs git annex add on them (it does not do regular git add)
- git annex assistant does the same as watch, but also runs git annex sync for each new file (does it also enable direct mode?)
- git annex webapp does the same as assistant, and also starts a webapp (in my case it immediately started sending files to origin, without asking for confirmation, which was surprising, I guess this is because I have * annex.numcopies=2 set, and there was only one copy. Still I interpreted the documentation as if it would only show me an interface, not start doing things right away.)
Do these commands do anything else than what I described above?
best regards, Tom
Most of this is explained pretty well on the man page.
git annex webappdoesn't do anything on its own, other than start the assistant if it is not already running, and point your browser at its built-in webapp. Starting the assistant manually will always have the same effect as opening the webapp.The assistant syncs files as configured by the preferred content settings of repositories. There's an interface to disable this syncing in the webapp, or change the setting to something that doesn't prefer all content be synced to a repository. This syncing of content is different from
git annex sync, which only syncs git repository data. It's more like runninggit annex copy --autoThe assistant enables direct mode when a new repository is created (using the webapp). It does not enable direct mode when run in an existing repository.