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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-05-09 15:04:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-05-09 15:04:07 -0400 |
| commit | 036c90d79289ef3c14c28d69c9d8ab94fca1e841 (patch) | |
| tree | 631dea4eac925dae7a24b0fde46ea813e574d2e4 /doc/backends.mdwn | |
| parent | 5098ef192f7cf128836dab02fa424948003f8fd1 (diff) | |
annex.backend is the new name for what was annex.backends
It takes a single key-value backend, rather than the unncessary and confusing list.
The old option still works if set.
Simplified some old old code too.
This commit was sponsored by Thomas Hochstein on Patreon.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/backends.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/backends.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/backends.mdwn b/doc/backends.mdwn index f69f655d6..c5b047ecc 100644 --- a/doc/backends.mdwn +++ b/doc/backends.mdwn @@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ Note that the various 512 and 384 length hashes result in long paths, which are known to not work on Windows. If interoperability on Windows is a concern, avoid those. -The `annex.backends` git-config setting can be used to list the backends -git-annex should use when adding new files. The first one listed will -be used. +The `annex.backend` git-config setting can be used to configure the +default backend to use when adding new files. For finer control of what backend is used when adding different types of files, the `.gitattributes` file can be used. The `annex.backend` |