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@@ -78,10 +78,11 @@ subdirectories).
or transferring them from some kind of key-value store.
Normally git-annex will choose which repository to copy the content from,
- but you can override this using the `--from` option. Only the last version
- of the file is retrieved (use `--all` to retrieve all versions of
- the file). `--key=KEY` option can be used to retrieve a specified key
- without the filename.
+ but you can override this using the `--from` option.
+
+ Rather than specifying a filename, the `--all` option can be used to
+ get all available versions of all files, or the --key=KEY`
+ option can be used to get a specified key.
* `drop [path ...]`