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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-23 17:57:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-23 17:57:10 -0400 |
| commit | 6246b807f7df32877a87d906cfbe1ae26c51dd8e (patch) | |
| tree | 00c38d74c2b4591ab0a68a807bb70c6044cde3f4 /doc/git-annex.mdwn | |
| parent | ad08273ac5118f1faac539b53f1fa63908dc5656 (diff) | |
migrate: Support migrating v1 SHA keys to v2 SHA keys with size information that can be used for free space checking.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index d7b57675d..81cea04cd 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -162,10 +162,15 @@ Many git-annex commands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you. * migrate [path ...] Changes the specified annexed files to store their content in the - default backend (or the one specified with --backend). + default backend (or the one specified with --backend). Only files whose + content is currently available are migrated. Note that the content is not removed from the backend it was previously in. - Use `git annex unused` to find and remove such content. + Use `git annex unused` to find and remove such content. + + Normally, nothing will be done to files already in the backend. + However, if a backend changes the information it uses to construct a key, + this can also be used to migrate files to use the new key format. * map |