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datalad add-archive-content - add content of an archive under git annex control.

datalad add-archive-content [-h] [--annex ANNEX] [--add-archive-leading-dir] [--strip-leading-dirs] [--leading-dirs-depth LEADING_DIRS_DEPTH] [--leading-dirs-consider LEADING_DIRS_CONSIDER] [--use-current-dir] [-d] [--key] [-e EXCLUDE] [-r RENAME] [--existing {fail,overwrite,archive-suffix,numeric-suffix}] [-o ANNEX_OPTIONS] [--copy] [--no-commit] [--allow-dirty] [--stats STATS] [--drop-after] [--delete-after] archive

This results in the files within archive (which must be already under annex control itself) added under annex referencing original archive via custom special remotes mechanism

Example:


annex-repo$ datalad add-archive-content my_big_tarball.tar.gz

archive file or a key (if --key specified). Constraints: value must be a string

show this help message. --help-np forcefully disables the use of a pager for displaying the help message
annex instance to use.
flag to place extracted content under a directory which would correspond to archive name with suffix stripped. E.g. for archive EXAMPLE.ZIP its content will be extracted under a directory EXAMPLE/.
flag to move all files directories up, from how they were stored in an archive, if that one contained a number (possibly more than 1 down) single leading directories.
maximal depth to strip leading directories to. If not specified (None), no limit.
regular expression(s) for directories to consider to strip away. Constraints: value must be a string
flag to extract archive under the current directory, not the directory where archive is located. Note that it will be of no effect if --key is given.
flag to delete original archive from the filesystem/git in current tree. Note that it will be of no effect if --key is given.
flag to signal if provided archive is not actually a filename on its own but an annex key.
regular expressions for filenames which to exclude from being added to annex. Applied after --rename if that one is specified. For exact matching, use anchoring. Constraints: value must be a string
regular expressions to rename files before being added under git. First letter defines how to split provided string into two parts: Python regular expression (with groups), and replacement string. Constraints: value must be a string
what operation to perform a file from archive tries to overwrite an existing file with the same name. 'fail' (default) leads to RuntimeError exception. 'overwrite' silently replaces existing file. 'archive-suffix' instructs to add a suffix (prefixed with a '-') matching archive name from which file gets extracted, and if that one present, 'numeric-suffix' is in effect in addition, when incremental numeric suffix (prefixed with a '.') is added until no name collision is longer detected. [Default: 'fail']
additional options to pass to git-annex. Constraints: value must be a string
flag to copy the content of the archive instead of moving.
flag to not commit upon completion.
flag that operating on a dirty repository (uncommitted or untracked content) is ok.
ActivityStats instance for global tracking.
drop extracted files after adding to annex.
extract under a temporary directory, git-annex add, and delete after. To be used to "index" files within annex without actually creating corresponding files under git. Note that `annex dropunused` would later remove that load.


datalad is developed by The DataLad Team and Contributors <team@datalad.org>.

2021-02-04 datalad add-archive-content 0.14.0