From 3953f7ab81f4edd540ab66fe25ebec56dc9c7ebc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:40:26 -0400 Subject: idea --- doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cb4722fa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/add_-all_option.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +`--all` would make git-annex operate on either every key with content +present (or in some cases like `get` and `copy --from` on +every keys with content not present). + +This would be useful when a repository has a history with deleted files +whose content you want to keep (so you're not using `dropunused`). +Or when you have a lot of branches and just want to be able to fsck +every file referenced in any branch. + +A problem with the idea is that `.gitattributes` values for keys not +currently in the tree would not be available (without horrific anounts of +grubbing thru history to find where/when the key used to exist). So +`numcopies` set via `.gitattributes` would not work. This would be a +particular problem for `drop` and for `--auto`. + +--[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3