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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-11-28 15:28:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-11-28 15:28:20 -0400 |
| commit | 653ad35a9f728ed5b3e9b557cdfb15a19b4afe16 (patch) | |
| tree | 40e8ed2880ea291f33ef20e931b9d9d1d8c7189c /doc/copies.mdwn | |
| parent | 92e5d28ca83d057a3d8f5d7d30806642de699172 (diff) | |
In .gitattributes, the git-annex-numcopies attribute can be used to control the number of copies to retain of different types of files.
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diff --git a/doc/copies.mdwn b/doc/copies.mdwn index aec10ab7a..f647ea622 100644 --- a/doc/copies.mdwn +++ b/doc/copies.mdwn @@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ your git repository's `.git` directory, not in some external data store. It's important that data not get lost by an ill-considered `git annex drop` command. So, then using those backends, git-annex can be configured to try -to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. By -default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. +to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. + +By default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. This default +can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the git-annex-numcopies +setting in the `.gitattributes` file. `git annex drop` attempts to check with other git remotes, to check that N copies of the file exist. If enough repositories cannot be verified to have |