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diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_cancel_an_add__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_to_cancel_an_add__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e0b0f1c8f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_cancel_an_add__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +What is the safest way to cancel a `git annex add` before the first commit? + +Say I first added a directory with a lot of small files to the annex and then (while watching the endless list of checksum operations) decide I should actually put them in a tar file and annex that instead. + +The problem seems to be that `git annex add` immediately replaces the files with symlinks instead of waiting for a commit, so I can't just `git reset largedir/; tar cvfz largedir.tgz largedir/; git annex add largedir.tgz`. |