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are pushed to the remote, so they can be merged into its working tree
by running "git annex sync" on the remote.
- Note that sync does not transfer any annexed file contents from or
- to the remote repositories; it only syncs the git repositories.
+ With the `--content` option, the contents of annexed files in the work
+ tree will also be uploaded and downloaded from remotes. By default,
+ this tries to get each annexed file that the local repository does not
+ yet have, and then copies each file to every remote that it is syncing with.
+ This behavior can be overridden by configuring the preferred content of
+ a repository. See see PREFERRED CONTENT below.
* `merge`