Removing git-annex Repo

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hiho,

Am Fr den  2. Dez 2011 um 21:18 schrieb Joey Hess:
> Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> > is there a other way than "git checkout git-annex; sed -i -e
> > '/<hash>/d' **/*(.); git commit -a; git checkout master" to remove a
> > repository completely from annex knowledge?
> 
> Well, that doesn't actually work;

I felt it.

> if you do that and then pull a independantly changed git-annex branch
> from a remote, the auto-union-merge will then add back all the lines
> you removed.

Not only that, also a "git annex fsck" will bring it back. But I wonder
where it gets the description and ID of the old remote.

> Marking the repository untrusted is the usual way.

I red about. But I want to wipe out the whole repository and don't want
to have inherited waste.

And yes, I can do the cleanup on all remotes too.

Regards
   Klaus
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