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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-27 13:55:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-27 13:55:28 -0400 |
| commit | 3281a1cb19e25f964ca9b91877a194fcb216ca5d (patch) | |
| tree | a19268d15b48ad9e4bf042a1d52e91bab150954e /doc | |
| parent | 4e7c27f58bc8af8be50bca82523ad18c1dfe2a4e (diff) | |
don't try to set up .gitattributes every time; only do it on git annex init
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index 3645d37f2..417ff7e58 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ Many git-annex subcommands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you. * init description - Initializes git-annex with a description of the git repository. + Initializes git-annex with a description of the git repository, + and sets up `.gitattributes` and the pre-commit hook. This is an optional, but recommended step. * unannex [path ...] @@ -106,6 +107,10 @@ Many git-annex subcommands will stage changes for later `git commit` by you. Fixes up symlinks that have become broken to again point to annexed content. This is useful to run if you have been moving the symlinks around. + You do not normally need to run this by hand since `git-annex init` + installs a pre-commit hook that automatically fixes up symlinks when + they are committed. + * fromkey file This can be used to maually set up a file to link to a specified key |