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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-15 22:19:44 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-15 22:19:44 -0400
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@@ -234,11 +234,11 @@ Many git-annex commands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you.
This can be used to manually set up a file to link to a specified key
in the key-value backend. How you determine an existing key in the backend
- varies. For the URL backend, the key is just a URL to the content.
+ varies. For the URL backend, the key is based on an URL to the content.
Example:
- git annex fromkey --backend=URL --key=http://www.archive.org/somefile somefile
+ git annex fromkey --key=URL--http://www.archive.org/somefile somefile
* dropkey [key ...]
@@ -248,24 +248,18 @@ Many git-annex commands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you.
This can be used to drop content for arbitrary keys, which do not need
to have a file in the git repository pointing at them.
- A backend will typically need to be specified with --backend. If none
- is specified, the first configured backend is used.
-
Example:
- git annex dropkey --backend=SHA1 7da006579dd64330eb2456001fd01948430572f2
+ git annex dropkey --key=SHA1-s10-7da006579dd64330eb2456001fd01948430572f2
* setkey file
This plumbing-level command sets the annexed data for a key to the content of
the specified file, and then removes the file.
- A backend will typically need to be specified with --backend. If none
- is specified, the first configured backend is used.
-
Example:
- git annex setkey --backend=WORM --key=1287765018:3 /tmp/file
+ git annex setkey --key=WORM-s3-m1287765018--file /tmp/file
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