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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-03-11 19:55:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-03-11 19:55:01 -0400 |
| commit | 8cdbe8fe29ccd7f1d2bc0daeaacd3a88427d40c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f53c20d153c2f1e1d7ae2b4699102ede5142b7b /doc | |
| parent | dfc7b3351c4b10681f48dfa347a2308a2eb63489 (diff) | |
addurl: Add --relaxed option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl.mdwn | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index c34fd4bfb..8013c3769 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ subdirectories). To avoid immediately downloading the url, specify --fast. + To avoid storing the size of the url's content, and accept whatever + is there at a future point, specific --relaxed. (Implies --fast.) + Normally the filename is based on the full url, so will look like "www.example.com_dir_subdir_bigfile". For a shorter filename, specify --pathdepth=N. For example, --pathdepth=1 will use "dir/subdir/bigfile", diff --git a/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl.mdwn b/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl.mdwn index a046f70ab..d0b847933 100644 --- a/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/wishlist:_option_to_disable_url_checking_with_addurl.mdwn @@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ c.f. [http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/How_to_retroactively_annex_a_file_alr The bottleneck I'm hitting here seems to be the fact that `git annex addurl` diligently checks each url to see that it is accessible, which adds up quickly if many files are to be processed. It would be great if addurl had an option to disable checking the url, in order to speed up large batch jobs like this. + +> --relaxed added [[done]] --[[Joey]] |