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diff --git a/doc/preferred_content.mdwn b/doc/preferred_content.mdwn index 2e12dce49..9c698c8ba 100644 --- a/doc/preferred_content.mdwn +++ b/doc/preferred_content.mdwn @@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ data always exist, and leaves it up to you to use commands like `git annex get` and `git annex drop` to move the content to the repositories you want to contain it. But sometimes, it can be good to have more fine-grained control over which repositories prefer to have which content. Configuring -this allows `git annex get --auto`, `git annex drop --auto`, etc to do -smarter things. +this allows the git-annex assistant as well as +`git annex get --auto`, `git annex drop --auto`, `git annex sync --content`, +etc to do smarter things. Preferred content settings can be edited using `git annex vicfg`, or viewed and set at the command line with `git annex wanted`. -Each repository can have its own settings, and other repositories may also -try to honor those settings. So there's no local `.git/config` setting it. +Each repository can have its own settings, and other repositories will +try to honor those settings when interacting with it. +So there's no local `.git/config` for preferred content settings. The idea is that you write an expression that files are matched against. If a file matches, it's preferred to have its content stored in the |