Re: [O] [PATCH] org-attach.el: Fetch attachments from git annex

[Kyle Meyer]

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Has Joey spoken for or against automatic fetching of content when
>>> requested?
>>
>> I think I'm missing something.  Why would he have an issue with running
>> "git annex get"?
>
> I don't have anything against it, but in OP he also talks about
> implementing something similar for ox-$BACKEND output...  Which doesn’t
> seem like a bad request.  Why should org-attachment support git-annex
> other parts of Org not?  But I don’t think we want to support annexed
> files in general.  (What about LFS’ed files?  Assuming a similar feature
> exists)

I think Joey is a vim user, so I doubt he's said anything about an Emacs
program choosing to call "git annex get" :)

But yeah, that's a good point about which parts of Org should support or
care about annexed files.  IMO export and nearly all parts of Org should
not.  I see org-attach as an exception because it is focused on managing
external files and already has some support for doing so with git and
git-annex.  (I think it would be fine for org-attach to support other
ways of storing files, should someone care to implement it.)  But I
don't actually use org-attach, so I may be off the mark here.

-- 
Kyle