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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-10-28 19:26:18 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2012-10-28 19:26:18 -0400
commitb20abd1cd40069159f087b20efb74262b4a1612d (patch)
tree5137ffd4c8c3a8bfff6aa9ccf0489ad373a9b896 /doc/git-annex.mdwn
parentde1428fc55d52e61b424c4d4b6bef06c7202eb01 (diff)
added 3 warnings that numcopies=0 is asking to lose data
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@@ -540,7 +540,9 @@ subdirectories).
* --numcopies=n
Overrides the `annex.numcopies` setting, forcing git-annex to ensure the
- specified number of copies exist.
+ specified number of copies exist.
+
+ Note that setting numcopies to 0 is very unsafe.
* --time-limit=time
@@ -691,6 +693,8 @@ Here are all the supported configuration settings.
* `annex.numcopies`
Number of copies of files to keep across all repositories. (default: 1)
+
+ Note that setting numcopies to 0 is very unsafe.
* `annex.backends`
@@ -893,6 +897,8 @@ the `annex.numcopies` attribute in `.gitattributes` files.
For example, this makes two copies be needed for wav files:
*.wav annex.numcopies=2
+
+Note that setting numcopies to 0 is very unsafe.
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