| git-annex-mincopies(1) | General Commands Manual | git-annex-mincopies(1) |
git-annex-mincopies - configure minimum number of copies
git annex mincopies N
Tells git-annex how many copies it is required to preserve of files, over all repositories. The default is 1.
Run without a number to get the current value.
This configuration is stored in the git-annex branch, so it will be seen by all clones of the repository. It can be overridden on a per-file basis by the annex.mincopies setting in .gitattributes files, or can be overridden temporarily with the --mincopies option.
This supplements the git-annex-numcopies(1) setting. In unusual situations, involving special remotes that do not support locking, and concurrent drops of the same content from multiple repositories, git-annex may violate the numcopies setting. In these unusual situations, git-annex ensures that the number of copies never goes below mincopies.
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>