From bff9a883768038c0cd6cd3aca46a637ac6767898 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat" Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:55:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] --- doc/todo/git-annex_support.mdwn | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/todo/git-annex_support.mdwn b/doc/todo/git-annex_support.mdwn index 2f636630c..78219625b 100644 --- a/doc/todo/git-annex_support.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/git-annex_support.mdwn @@ -96,4 +96,8 @@ 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]] +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. See also [[tips/Ikiwiki_with_git-annex__44___the_album_and_the_underlay_plugins]] for an example. + +Also note that ikiwiki-hosting has a [patch waiting](https://ikiwiki-hosting.branchable.com/todo/git-annex_support) to allow pushes to work with git-annex. This could potentially be expanded to sync content to the final checkout properly, avoiding some of the problems above (esp. wrt to non-annex bare repos). + +Combined with the [[underlay]] feature, this could work very nicely indeed... --[[anarcat]] -- 2.39.5