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diff --git a/doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb4722fa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +`--all` would make git-annex operate on either every key with content +present (or in some cases like `get` and `copy --from` on +every keys with content not present). + +This would be useful when a repository has a history with deleted files +whose content you want to keep (so you're not using `dropunused`). +Or when you have a lot of branches and just want to be able to fsck +every file referenced in any branch. + +A problem with the idea is that `.gitattributes` values for keys not +currently in the tree would not be available (without horrific anounts of +grubbing thru history to find where/when the key used to exist). So +`numcopies` set via `.gitattributes` would not work. This would be a +particular problem for `drop` and for `--auto`. + +--[[Joey]] |