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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2017-02-24 11:53:59 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2017-02-24 11:53:59 -0400
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clarify that annex.backends is used when adding new files
Even if annex.backends does not include a backend, that does not prevent git-annex commands from acting on a file using the missing backend. (There's really no reason at all for annex.backends to be a list.)
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@@ -823,8 +823,8 @@ Here are all the supported configuration settings.
* `annex.backends`
- Space-separated list of names of the key-value backends to use.
- The first listed is used to store new files by default.
+ Space-separated list of names of the key-value backends to use
+ when adding new files to the repository.
This is overridden by annex annex.backend configuration in the
.gitattributes files.