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diff --git a/doc/copies.mdwn b/doc/copies.mdwn index 93cbd8ea8..205d2d5b1 100644 --- a/doc/copies.mdwn +++ b/doc/copies.mdwn @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ command. So, git-annex can be configured to try to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. (Although [[untrusted_repositories|trust]] don't count toward this total.) -By default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. This default -can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the annex.numcopies +By default, N is 1; it is configured by running `git annex numcopies N`. +This default can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the annex.numcopies setting in `.gitattributes` files. The --numcopies switch allows temporarily using a different value. @@ -30,9 +30,3 @@ refuse to do so. With N=2, in order to drop the file content from Laptop, it would need access to both USB and Server. - -Note that different repositories can be configured with different values of -N. So just because Laptop has N=2, this does not prevent the number of -copies falling to 1, when USB and Server have N=1. To avoid this, -configure it in `.gitattributes`, which is shared between repositories -using git. |