[Question] update on an existing artifact?

pbiecek / archivist

A set of tools for datasets and plots archiving

http://pbiecek.github.io/archivist/

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[Question] update on an existing artifact? #295

Closed happyshows closed 8 years ago

happyshows commented 8 years ago

Hi,

After reviewing a couple of artifacts and found one of them that requires a minor edit (let's say grammer fix). Is it possible to aread(), modify and write it back with the same md5 code?

pbiecek commented 8 years ago

The md5 hash is a unique function, it can be used as a 'proof' that the downloaded artifact is the original one and is unchanged.

So technically it is possible to manually override the artifact with a given hash but it is not supported by archivist and is not recommended.

happyshows commented 8 years ago

ok thanks.