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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-02-16 12:25:19 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2012-02-16 12:25:19 -0400 |
| commit | 39c3f56b339fcaad3f91530f1f2dce0a0783d782 (patch) | |
| tree | 6cb77b1b0fc97d21420dd6ba4b27602e45be43a9 /doc | |
| parent | a86d937b5b4dd8348bdf3d08ceea7cfe1aa43668 (diff) | |
addurl: Add --pathdepth option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index d4e62568f..d5814a2c2 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -149,10 +149,15 @@ subdirectories). To avoid immediately downloading the url, specify --fast. - To specify what file the url is added to, specify --file. This changes - the behavior; now all the specified urls are recorded as alternate - locations from which the file can be downloaded. In this mode, addurl - can be used both to add new files, or to add urls to existing files. + Normally the filename is based on the full url, so will look like + "www.example.com_subdir_bigfile". For a shorter filename, specify + --pathdepth=N. For example, --pathdepth=2 will use "subdir/bigfile", + while --parhdepth=1 will use "bigfile". + + Or, to directly specify what file the url is added to, specify --file. + This changes the behavior; now all the specified urls are recorded as + alternate locations from which the file can be downloaded. In this mode, + addurl can be used both to add new files, or to add urls to existing files. # REPOSITORY SETUP COMMANDS |