Package: git-annex
Version: 10.20221003-3
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
Hi,
Because youtube-dl can't cope with some sites, I downloaded a file with
yt-dlp manually and wanted to add it with "git annex addurl" later.
The man page says:
--file=name
Use with a filename that does not yet exist to add a new file
with the specified name and the content downloaded from the url.
If the file already exists, addurl will record that it can be
downloaded from the specified url(s).
So I tried the following:
$ yt-dlp -o existing_file.mp4
https://some.videosite.example.com/existing_file.mp4
$ git annex addurl --raw --relaxed --file=existing_file.mp4
https://some.videosite.example.com/existing_file.mp4
But the latter failed as follows:
addurl https://some.videosite.example.com/existing_file.mp4
existing_file.mp4 already exists; not overwriting
failed
addurl: 1 failed
But that's not what is expected to happen according to the man page.
What actually did help was running the following command inbetween the
two commands above:
$ git annex add existing_file.mp4
But that's not (exactly) what the man page says. So I see two ways to
fix this issue:
1. Update the man page to state that "already exists" actually means
"already exists in the index or repository".
2. Update the behaviour of "git annex addurl --file=" to also accept
existing, but not yet added files and add them in the same run,
too.
(This is probably an upstream issue, tagging as such.)
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