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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/copies.mdwn | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 6 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/copies.mdwn b/doc/copies.mdwn index aec10ab7a..f647ea622 100644 --- a/doc/copies.mdwn +++ b/doc/copies.mdwn @@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ your git repository's `.git` directory, not in some external data store. It's important that data not get lost by an ill-considered `git annex drop` command. So, then using those backends, git-annex can be configured to try -to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. By -default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. +to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. + +By default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. This default +can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the git-annex-numcopies +setting in the `.gitattributes` file. `git annex drop` attempts to check with other git remotes, to check that N copies of the file exist. If enough repositories cannot be verified to have diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index 27393de50..65cce8cc2 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -275,6 +275,12 @@ but the SHA1 backend for ogg files: * git-annex-backend=WORM *.ogg git-annex-backend=SHA1 +The numcopies setting can also be configured on a per-file-type basis via +the `git-annex-numcopies` attribute. For example, this makes two copies +be needed for ogg files: + + *.ogg git-annex-numcopies=2 + # FILES These files are used, in your git repository: |