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diff --git a/doc/git-annex-smudge.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-smudge.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c8e545367 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/git-annex-smudge.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +# NAME + +git-annex smudge - git filter driver for git-annex + +# SYNOPSIS + +git annex smudge [--clean] file + +# DESCRIPTION + +This command lets git-annex be used as a git filter driver which lets +annexed files in the git repository to be unlocked at all times, instead +of being symlinks. + +When adding a file with `git add`, the annex.largefiles config is +consulted to decide if a given file should be added to git as-is, +or if its content are large enough to need to use git-annex. To force a +file that would normally be added to the annex to be added to git as-is, +this can be temporarily overridden. For example: + + git -c annex.largefiles='exclude=*' add myfile + +The git configuration to use this command as a filter driver is as follows. +This is normally set up for you by git-annex init, so you should +not need to configure it manually. + + [filter "annex"] + smudge = git-annex smudge %f + clean = git-annex smudge --clean %f + +To make git use that filter driver, it needs to be configured in +the .gitattributes file or in `.git/config/attributes`. The latter +is normally configured when a repository is initialized, with the following +contents: + + * filter=annex + .* !filter + +# SEE ALSO + +[[git-annex]](1) + +# AUTHOR + +Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> + +Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care. |