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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-08-06 14:57:22 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-08-06 14:57:22 -0400
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addurl: --fast can be used to avoid immediately downloading the url.
The tricky part about this is that to generate a key, the file must be present already. Worked around by adding (back) an URL key type, which is used for addurl --fast.
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@@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ Many git-annex commands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you.
Downloads each url to a file, which is added to the annex.
+ To avoid immediately downloading the url, specify --fast
+
* fromkey file
This plumbing-level command can be used to manually set up a file