git-annex-import(1) | General Commands Manual | git-annex-import(1) |
git-annex-import - move and add files from outside git working copy
git annex import [path ...]
Moves files from somewhere outside the git working copy, and adds them to the annex. Individual files to import can be specified. If a directory is specified, the entire directory is imported.
git annex import /media/camera/DCIM/*
When importing files, there's a possibility of importing a duplicate of a file that is already known to git-annex -- its content is either present in the local repository already, or git-annex knows of another repository that contains it, or it was present in the annex before but has been removed now.
By default, importing a duplicate of a known file will result in a new filename being added to the repository, so the duplicate file is present in the repository twice. (With all checksumming backends, including the default SHA256E, only one copy of the data will be stored.)
Several options can be used to adjust handling of duplicate files.
Note that using --deduplicate or --clean-duplicates with the WORM backend does not look at file content, but filename and mtime.
If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file, git annex import will add the non-large file directly to the git repository, instead of to the annex.
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>