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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-10-21 13:24:15 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-10-21 13:24:15 -0400
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info: When run on a single annexed file, displays some info about the file, including its key and size.
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To generate output suitable for the gource visualization program,
specify `--gource`.
-* `info [directory ...]`
+* `info [directory|file ...]`
- Displays some statistics and other information, including how much data
- is in the annex and a list of all known repositories.
+ Displays statistics and other information for the specified item,
+ or if none is specified, for the repository as a whole.
- To only show the data that can be gathered quickly, use `--fast`.
+ When a directory is specified, the file matching options can be used
+ to select the files in the directory that are included in the statistics.
- When a directory is specified, shows a differently formatted info
- display for that directory. In this mode, all of the matching
- options can be used to filter the files that will be included in
- the information.
+ To only show the data that can be gathered quickly, use `--fast`.
For example, suppose you want to run "git annex get .", but
would first like to see how much disk space that will use.