git config annex.largefiles 'largerthan=100kb and not (include=*.mdwn or include=*.txt)'
- 2. make the bare repository (the remote of `$srcdir`) ignored by git-annex:
+ 4. make the bare repository (the remote of `$srcdir`) ignored by git-annex:
cd $srcdir
git config remote.origin.annex-ignore true
(!) This needs to be done on *ANY* clone of the repository, which is annoying, but it's important because we don't want to see git-annex stuff in the bare repo. (why?)
+ 5. deploy the following crappy plugin to make commits work again and make sure the right files are added in git-annex:
+
+[[!format perl """
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::gitannex;
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use IkiWiki 3.00;
+
+sub import {
+ hook(type => "getsetup", id => "gitannex", call => \&getsetup);
+ hook(type => "savestate", id => "gitannex", call => \&rcs_commit);
+ # we need to handle all rcs commands maybe?
+}
+
+sub getsetup () {
+ return
+ plugin => {
+ safe => 1, # rcs plugin
+ rebuild => undef,
+ section => "misc",
+ },
+}
+
+# XXX: we want to copy or reuse safe_git
+
+sub rcs_commit (@) {
+ chdir $config{srcdir};
+ `git annex add --auto`;
+ `git annex sync`;
+}
+
+sub rcs_commit_staged (@) {
+ rcs_commit($@);
+}
+
+1
+"""]]
This assumes you know what `srcdir`, `repository` and so on mean, if you forgot (like me), see this reference: [[rcs/git/]].
+
What doesn't work
-----------------
-With a recent version of git-annex: mostly everything. :) Since git-annex in `direct` mode now [sets the repository as bare](http://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_48__direct_mode_guard_design/), *nothing* gets committed at all.
-
-What would need to happen in ikiwiki would be to detect that `$srcdir` is running git-annex in direct mode and then do some magic. Here is a tentative incantation in shell:
-
- if [ $(git config core.bare) == 'true' ] &&
- [ $(git config annex.direct) == 'true' ]; then
- git annex add --auto
- git -c core.bare=false commit -m'testing git-annex with ikiwiki'
- fi
-
-This probably needs to happen around line 571 of `git.pm` or, more likely, in a new `git-annex` plugin.
+ * the above plugin is kind of flaky and ugly.
+ * it's not an RCS plugin, but probably should be, replacing the git plugin, because really: git doesn't work at all anymore at this point
What remains to be clarified
----------------------------
* why do we ignore the bare repository?
See the [[discussion]] for a followup on that. --[[anarcat]]
+
+Alternative implementation
+==========================
+
+An alternative implementation, which remains to be detailed but is mentionned in [[forum/ikiwiki_and_big_files]], is to use the [[underlay]] feature combined with the `hardlink` option to deploy the git-annex'd files. Then git-annex is separate from the base ikiwiki git repo. --[[anarcat]]