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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-06-01 16:49:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-06-01 16:49:17 -0400 |
| commit | 3d567aa64f263c6ee55c92e8b962087de063ebc8 (patch) | |
| tree | b900a87442363b33fd0fe9cba42923313f283676 /doc | |
| parent | 12e0e95916b81352b6f0dfdf95d3e623d4a12738 (diff) | |
Add --numcopies option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/new_microfeatures.mdwn | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/forum/new_microfeatures.mdwn b/doc/forum/new_microfeatures.mdwn index 4b4389e3d..fe91addca 100644 --- a/doc/forum/new_microfeatures.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/new_microfeatures.mdwn @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Here are a few I've been considering: --- * --numcopies would be a useful command line switch. + > Update: Added. Also allows for things like `git annex drop + > --numcopies=2` when in a repo that normally needs 3 copies, if you need + > to urgently free up space. * A way to make `drop` and other commands temporarily trust a given remote, or possibly all remotes. Combined, this would allow `git annex drop --numcopies=2 --trust=repoa --trust=repob` to remove files that have been replicated out to the other 2 repositories, which could be offline. (Slightly unsafe, but in this case the files are podcasts so not really.) diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index 7f2fce9d2..e4924d373 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -354,6 +354,11 @@ Many git-annex commands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you. This option can be specified multiple times. +* --numcopies=n + + Overrides the `annex.numcopies` setting, forcing git-annex to ensure the + specified number of copies exist. + * --backend=name Specifies which key-value backend to use. This can be used when |