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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-04-15 14:12:42 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-04-15 14:12:42 -0400
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document uninit --fast and also why it's not the default
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repository, and remove all of git-annex's other data, leaving you with a
git repository plus the previously annexed files.
+ Normally this does a slow copy of every file. In `--fast` mode, this copy
+ is avoided, but if two files in the repository have the same content,
+ they will end up hard linked together.
+
# PLUMBING COMMANDS
* `pre-commit [path ...]`