Today I added a "Files" link in the navbar of the WebApp. It looks like a regular hyperlink, but clicking on it opens up your desktop's native file manager, to manage the files in the repository!

Quite fun to be able to do this kind of thing from a web page. :)


Made git annex init (and the WebApp) automatically generate a description of the repo when none is provided.


Also worked on the configuration pages some. I don't want to get ahead of myself by diving into the full configuration stage yet, but I am at least going to add a configuration screen to clone the repo to a removable drive.

After that, the list of transfers on the dashboard needs some love. I'll probably start by adding UI to cancel running transfers, and then try to get drag and drop reordering of transfers working.

I thought that most (if not all) browsers prevent opening local files/directories via web pages. How did you solve that problem?
Comment by http://cweiske.de/ Wed Aug 15 22:02:14 2012
Yes, it's surprising to me when I see it work, and I wrote it. :) Since git-annex is running locally on the same system as the browser, it can open the file manager when the user clicks on a link in the web browser. To the web browser, this is just an AJAX request.
Comment by http://joeyh.name/ Thu Aug 16 23:34:12 2012
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