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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0f17f1dea --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/walkthrough/optimizing_repositories.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Once you have multiple repositories, and have perhaps configured numcopies, +any given file can have many more copies than is needed, or perhaps fewer +than you would like. Fsck can detect the latter problem, but there's another +command that can help deal with both problems. + +The optimize subcommand either gets or drops file content, as needed, +to work toward meeting the configured numcopies setting. + + # git annex optimize + get my_cool_big_file (from laptop...) ok + drop other_file ok + # git annex optimize --numcopies=2 + get other_file ok |