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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-10-28 19:26:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-10-28 19:26:18 -0400 |
| commit | b20abd1cd40069159f087b20efb74262b4a1612d (patch) | |
| tree | 5137ffd4c8c3a8bfff6aa9ccf0489ad373a9b896 /doc/git-annex.mdwn | |
| parent | de1428fc55d52e61b424c4d4b6bef06c7202eb01 (diff) | |
added 3 warnings that numcopies=0 is asking to lose data
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/git-annex.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index c427cbfe7..d5f5da464 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -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. # FILES |