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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-01-20 16:47:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-01-20 16:47:56 -0400 |
| commit | 8cd1d9ed5ebf96d9e39116f63900ccd7be8d907e (patch) | |
| tree | 9d4bb88a930f28120de40556eeec906de7df39d0 /doc/copies.mdwn | |
| parent | 5534e89870b7d0885f6fe113068c0514a03a74bd (diff) | |
global numcopies setting
* numcopies: New command, sets global numcopies value that is seen by all
clones of a repository.
* The annex.numcopies git config setting is deprecated. Once the numcopies
command is used to set the global number of copies, any annex.numcopies
git configs will be ignored.
* assistant: Make the prefs page set the global numcopies.
This global numcopies setting is needed to let preferred content
expressions operate on numcopies.
It's also convenient, because typically if you want git-annex to preserve N
copies of files in a repo, you want it to do that no matter which repo it's
running in. Making it global avoids needing to warn the user about gotchas
involving inconsistent annex.numcopies settings.
(See changes to doc/numcopies.mdwn.)
Added a new variety of git-annex branch log file, that holds only 1 value.
Will probably be useful for other stuff later.
This commit was sponsored by Nicolas Pouillard.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/copies.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/copies.mdwn | 10 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/copies.mdwn b/doc/copies.mdwn index 93cbd8ea8..205d2d5b1 100644 --- a/doc/copies.mdwn +++ b/doc/copies.mdwn @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ command. So, git-annex can be configured to try to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. (Although [[untrusted_repositories|trust]] don't count toward this total.) -By default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. This default -can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the annex.numcopies +By default, N is 1; it is configured by running `git annex numcopies N`. +This default can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the annex.numcopies setting in `.gitattributes` files. The --numcopies switch allows temporarily using a different value. @@ -30,9 +30,3 @@ refuse to do so. With N=2, in order to drop the file content from Laptop, it would need access to both USB and Server. - -Note that different repositories can be configured with different values of -N. So just because Laptop has N=2, this does not prevent the number of -copies falling to 1, when USB and Server have N=1. To avoid this, -configure it in `.gitattributes`, which is shared between repositories -using git. |