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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-11-30 13:45:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-11-30 14:13:20 -0400 |
| commit | 7a8d7ba5ef558f3038ee5ee06e92e5f5e8df1ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a2482329870e768f4f92240ae14d61c7768bd0d /doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn | |
| parent | 51ab2efc693983dcca6d79b531339b00e23fa871 (diff) | |
rethought --relaxed change
Better to make it not be surprising and slow, than surprising and fast.
--raw can be used when it needs to be really fast.
Implemented adding a youtube-dl supported url to an existing file.
This commit was sponsored by andrea rota.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn index 5d68f4012..a43976b56 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex-addurl.mdwn @@ -32,13 +32,12 @@ be used to get better filenames. Don't immediately download the url, and avoid storing the size of the url's content. This makes git-annex accept whatever content is there - at a future point. This is also the fastest option, since it does not - hit the network at all. - - Note that this does *not* check for embedded videos using `youtube-dl`, - although it used to in previous versions of git-annex. - Use --fast instead if you want to do that. + at a future point. + This is the fastest option, but it still has to access the network + to check if the url contains embedded media. When adding large numbers + of urls, using `--relaxed --raw` is much faster. + * `--raw` Prevent special handling of urls by youtube-dl, bittorrent, and other |