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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-09-28 12:36:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2017-09-28 12:36:10 -0400 |
| commit | 5b3ff3fb3c8c4191e0d0a7653014d0b5fd9a0120 (patch) | |
| tree | c92045726b3768319d060a53459b46ae73ff445f /doc | |
| parent | 212d9db545ef30fd42bfb6848cef37a36976cc17 (diff) | |
metadata: Added --remove-all.
Motivation is to remove all metadata when it gets copied from a previous
version of the file, and that is not deisrable.
This commit was supported by the NSF-funded DataLad project.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex-metadata.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-metadata.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-metadata.mdwn index fde4443dc..fa1a884b3 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex-metadata.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex-metadata.mdwn @@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ automatically. Unset a tag. +* `--remove-all` + + Remove all metadata from the specified files. + + When a file is modified and the new version added, git-annex will copy + over the metadata from the old version of the file. In situations where + you don't want that copied metadata, you can use this option to remove + it. + * `--force` By default, `git annex metadata` refuses to recursively set metadata |