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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-01-30 15:11:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-01-30 15:27:25 -0400 |
| commit | dc2095666d7b8e39ec3e1f2f26dca7eceff34877 (patch) | |
| tree | 1318374f174afc23da83910d0a23aa24c0ae4af7 /doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn | |
| parent | 0a3f602b6367d7ac71947e9d38ea8004f28a465a (diff) | |
vicfg: Include the numcopies configuation.
Docs say vicfg can configure everything from git-annex branch,
so it ought to configure numcopies.
Note that commenting out existing numcopies does not unset it.
This commit was sponsored by Thom May on Patreon.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn index b29cbb8bf..96701e1ef 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex-numcopies.mdwn @@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ git annex numcopies `N` # DESCRIPTION Tells git-annex how many copies it should preserve of files, over all -repositories. The default is 1. +repositories. The default is 1. Run without a number to get the current value. +This configuration is stored in the git-annex branch, so it will be seen +by all clones of the repository. + When git-annex is asked to drop a file, it first verifies that the required number of copies can be satisfied among all the other repositories that have a copy of the file. |