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diff --git a/doc/preferred_content.mdwn b/doc/preferred_content.mdwn index e031498d5..af76a0e7b 100644 --- a/doc/preferred_content.mdwn +++ b/doc/preferred_content.mdwn @@ -149,9 +149,13 @@ group and make its preferred content be "groupwanted" will use it. It's important that all clones of a repository can understand one-another's preferred content expressions, especially when using the git-annex assistant. So using newly added keywords can cause a problem if -an older version of git-annex is in use elsewhere. When an old version -of git-annex sees a keyword it does not understand, it assumes that keyword -will match *all* files. +an older version of git-annex is in use elsewhere. + +Before git-annex version 5.20140320, when git-annex saw a keyword it +did not understand, it defaulted to assuming *all* files were +preferred content. From version 5.20140320, git-annex has a nicer fallback +behavior: When it is unable to parse a preferred content expression, +it assumes all files that are currently present are preferred content. Here are recent changes to preferred content expressions, and the version they were added in. |