[digiKam-users] Using digiKam with git-annex

[Jason Boxman]

Hi all,

For some years, I've wanted to use digiKam in conjunction with `git-annex`
to manage a few thousand photographs that I have. After some
experimentation, I found that the best setup is to provide digiKam with a
hardlink copy of the files.

(The specific reason for this is that, when creating .xmp sidecar files,
digiKam follows symlinks, but in a `git-annex` repository, the directory
containing the symlink target is read-only.)

So as a proof of concept[0], I created a script that I use to manage the
parallel directory structure. It also handles ingesting and rotating files,
but you can already do that with digiKam.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[0] http://edseek.com/docs/projects/dam/

-- 
Jason Boxman
jasonb at edseek.com
in: http://linkedin.com/in/jboxman
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