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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-09-15 15:27:45 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-09-15 15:28:58 -0400
commita0d3a343b52fba63df523d49849b43217ce744ab (patch)
tree3bd2e0cef5a91a5fdf6183ba3869c77ac6b68eaa /doc/walkthrough
parent7b90cb72fc7d86a8f99d839378fba1ef1c86ff4a (diff)
copy --auto
Only does copy when numcopies is not yet satisfied.
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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/automatically_managing_content.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/automatically_managing_content.mdwn
index 74a4c1b5b..5107d2f6f 100644
--- a/doc/walkthrough/automatically_managing_content.mdwn
+++ b/doc/walkthrough/automatically_managing_content.mdwn
@@ -36,3 +36,6 @@ work toward having two copies of your files.
whereis other_file (2 copies)
0c443de8-e644-11df-acbf-f7cd7ca6210d -- laptop
7570b02e-15e9-11e0-adf0-9f3f94cb2eaa -- backup drive
+
+The --auto option can also be used with the copy command,
+again this lets git-annex decide whether to actually copy content.