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diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/using_the_URL_backend.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/using_the_URL_backend.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 50da4dad8..000000000 --- a/doc/walkthrough/using_the_URL_backend.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -git-annex has multiple key-value [[backends]]. So far you have been using -the default, WORM (Write Once, Read Many) backend. - -Another handy backend is the URL backend, which can fetch file's content -from remote URLs. Here's how to set up some files in your repository -that use this backend: - - # git annex fromkey --key=URL--http://www.archive.org/somefile somefile - fromkey somefile ok - # git commit -m "added a file from the Internet Archive" - -Now you if you ask git-annex to get that file, it will download it, -and cache it locally. - - # git annex get somefile - get somefile (downloading) - #########################################################################100.0% - ok - -You can always drop files downloaded by the URL backend. It is assumed -that the URL is stable; no local backup is kept. - - # git annex drop somefile - drop somefile (ok) |