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authorGravatar https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnx8kHW66N3BqmkVpgtXDlYMvr8TJ5VvfY <Yaroslav@web>2015-02-20 16:47:46 +0000
committerGravatar admin <admin@branchable.com>2015-02-20 16:47:46 +0000
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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+annex lists all the remotes UUIDs (the same) when whereis is ran across multiple files. This makes output lengthy and harder to process and share for no reason. Why not to list remotes just once on top and then only locations per each file, e.g. instead of
+[[!format sh """
+
+$> git annex whereis
+whereis 2011-Palmour-etal_canadian_consent_forms.pdf (2 copies)
+ 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web
+ 94b3c553-ad30-450e-be56-504b400f9a5c -- yoh@novo:~/proj/open-consent [here]
+
+ web: http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/638/art%253A10.1186%252F1472-6939-12-1.pdf?auth66=1401467160_8992951c5cccc0dbe510c369eba3afa1&ext=.pdf
+ok
+whereis Arizona_consent.pdf (2 copies)
+ 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web
+ 94b3c553-ad30-450e-be56-504b400f9a5c -- yoh@novo:~/proj/open-consent [here]
+
+ web: http://web.arizona.edu/~arg/papers/fmri/forms/consent.pdf
+ok
+
+"""]]
+
+get (not sure if I want to see ok much either)
+
+[[!format sh """
+
+$> git annex whereis
+ 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web
+ 94b3c553-ad30-450e-be56-504b400f9a5c -- yoh@novo:~/proj/open-consent [here]
+
+whereis 2011-Palmour-etal_canadian_consent_forms.pdf (2 copies)
+ web: http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/638/art%253A10.1186%252F1472-6939-12-1.pdf?auth66=1401467160_8992951c5cccc0dbe510c369eba3afa1&ext=.pdf
+
+whereis Arizona_consent.pdf (2 copies)
+ web: http://web.arizona.edu/~arg/papers/fmri/forms/consent.pdf
+"""]]
+
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+run git annex whereis on a directory with multiple files
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+Debian
+[[!format sh """
+$> acpolicy git-annex
+git-annex:
+ Installed: 5.20150205+git57-gc05b522-1~nd80+1
+ Candidate: 5.20150205+git57-gc05b522-1~nd80+1
+ Version table:
+ *** 5.20150205+git57-gc05b522-1~nd80+1 0
+ 500 http://neuro.debian.net/debian-devel/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
+ 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+"""]]