syncing non-git trees with git-annex

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Am Mi den 14. Dez 2011 um 14:15 schrieb Adam Spiers:
> >  find -name \*.avi -exec git annex add {} \;
> 
> That's substantially less performant, because it forks a whole new
> tree of git / git-annex processes per file.
> 
> If we're getting picky, we should also worry about spaces in
> filenames:
> 
>   find -name \*.avi -print0 | xargs -0 git annex add
> 
> but it was only an example, and to be honest, I didn't even use the
> xargs variant myself; I used zsh's recursive globbing:
> 
>   git annex add **/*.avi

Well, the zsh syntax is fine as long as the matches are not too much. If
the result gets to big your command line would get too big.

On the other hand you can use find as the following:
   find -name \*.avi -exec git annex add {} +

This will not spawn new process for every file but will also work with
more files a command line can hold. And it is even a bit more performant
as the xargs version.

Regards
   Klaus
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