From 52fc6cd95aa278cdf438041c717edc1bc009c160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 12:11:19 -0400 Subject: clarify that --all doesn't operate on a single file --- doc/git-annex.mdwn | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index 06e8794f1..11e086a8c 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -78,10 +78,11 @@ subdirectories). or transferring them from some kind of key-value store. Normally git-annex will choose which repository to copy the content from, - but you can override this using the `--from` option. Only the last version - of the file is retrieved (use `--all` to retrieve all versions of - the file). `--key=KEY` option can be used to retrieve a specified key - without the filename. + but you can override this using the `--from` option. + + Rather than specifying a filename, the `--all` option can be used to + get all available versions of all files, or the --key=KEY` + option can be used to get a specified key. * `drop [path ...]` -- cgit v1.2.3