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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-22 14:57:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2013-04-22 14:57:09 -0400 |
| commit | 8655ea7f8e853b7de4defbca2655b741362ecd21 (patch) | |
| tree | 685b461a9e6471dbf403bb281d4382661a36d245 /doc | |
| parent | 032c802d45c7872f704de1faf0733740b256444d (diff) | |
sync, assistant: Sync with remotes that have annex-ignore set
This is so git remotes on servers without git-annex installed can be used
to keep clients' git repos in sync.
This is a behavior change, but since annex-sync can be set to disable
syncing with a remote, I think it's acceptable.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index b9badce9b..1c2247654 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -904,14 +904,17 @@ Here are all the supported configuration settings. * `remote.<name>.annex-ignore` If set to `true`, prevents git-annex - from using this remote by default. (You can still request it be used - by the --from and --to options.) + from storing file contents on this remote by default. + (You can still request it be used by the --from and --to options.) This is, for example, useful if the remote is located somewhere without git-annex-shell. (For example, if it's on GitHub). Or, it could be used if the network connection between two repositories is too slow to be used normally. + This does not prevent git-annex sync (or the git-annex assistant) from + syncing the git repository to the remote. + * `remote.<name>.annex-sync` If set to `false`, prevents git-annex sync (and the git-annex assistant) |