git-annex-common-options - options supported by many git-annex
commands
These common options are accepted by many git-annex commands, and
may not be explicitly listed on their individual man pages. Most of these
options are accepted by all git-annex commands. (Many commands also accept
the git-annex-matching-options(1).)
- --force
- Force unsafe actions, such as dropping a file's content when no other
source of it can be verified to still exist, or adding ignored files. Use
with care.
- --fast
- Avoid some expensive operations normally performed by a command. What is
avoided depends on the command, see individual command's man pages for
details.
- --quiet
- Avoid the default verbose display of what is done; only show errors.
- --verbose
- Enable verbose display.
- --debug
- Display debug messages.
- --no-debug
- Disable display of debug messages.
- --debugfilter=name[,name..]
- When debug message display has been enabled by --debug, this
filters the debug messages that are displayed to ones coming from modules
with the specified names.
- To find the names of modules, see the full debug output, which includes
the module name, eg "(Utility.Process)"
- The full module name does not need to be specified when using this, a
substring of the name will do.
- For example, --debugfilter=Process,External will display debugging
output when git-annex runs processes, and when it communicates with
external special remotes.
- --numcopies=n
- Overrides the numcopies setting.
- --mincopies=n
- Overrides the mincopies setting.
- --time-limit=time
- Limits how long a git-annex command runs. The time can be something like
"5h", or "30m" or even "45s" or
"10d".
- Note that git-annex may continue running for some time past the specified
time limit, in order to finish processing files it started before the time
limit was reached. That and a cleaner shutdown are the differences between
using this option and a command like timeout(1).
- When the time limit prevents git-annex from doing all it was asked to, it
will exit with a special code, 101.
- --size-limit=size
- Limits the total size of annexed files that a git-annex command can
process.
- The size can be specified with any commonly used units, for example,
"50gb".
- In some cases, an annexed file's size is not known. This option will
prevent git-annex from processing such files.
- When the size limit prevents git-annex from acting on any files, it will
exit with a special code, 101.
- --semitrust=repository
- --untrust=repository
- Overrides trust settings for a repository. May be specified more than
once.
- The repository should be specified using the name of a configured remote,
or the UUID or description of a repository.
- --trust=repository
- This used to override trust settings for a repository, but now will not do
so, because trusting a repository can lead to data loss, and data loss is
now only enabled when using the --force option.
- --trust-glacier
- This used to override trust settings for Glacier special remotes, but now
will not do so, because it could lead to data loss, and data loss is now
only enabled when using the --force option.
- --user-agent=value
- Overrides the User-Agent to use when downloading files from the web.
- --notify-finish
- Caused a desktop notification to be displayed after each successful file
download and upload.
- (Only supported on some platforms, e.g. Linux with dbus. A no-op when not
supported.)
- --notify-start
- Caused a desktop notification to be displayed when a file upload or
download has started, or when a file is dropped.
- -c name=value
- Overrides git configuration settings. May be specified multiple
times.
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>