git-annex-copy - copy content of files to/from another
repository
git annex copy [path ...] [--from=remote|--to=remote]
Copies the content of files from or to another remote.
With no parameters, operates on all annexed files in the current
directory. Paths of files or directories to operate on can be specified.
- --from=remote
- Copy the content of files from the specified remote to the local
repository.
- Any files that are not available on the remote will be silently
skipped.
- --to=remote
- Copy the content of files from the local repository to the specified
remote.
- --to=here
- Copy the content of files from all reachable remotes to the local
repository.
- --from=remote1
--to=remote2
- Copy the content of files that are in remote1 to remote2.
- This is implemented by first downloading the content from remote1 to the
local repository (if not already present), then sending it to remote2, and
then deleting the content from the local repository (if it was not present
to start with).
- --jobs=N
-JN
- Enables parallel transfers with up to the specified number of jobs running
at once. For example: -J10
- Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
- Note that when using --from with --to, twice this many jobs will run at
once, evenly split between the two remotes.
- --auto
- Rather than copying all specified files, only copy those that don't yet
have the desired number of copies, or that are preferred content of the
destination repository. See git-annex-preferred-content(1)
- --fast
- When copying content to a remote, avoid a round trip to check if the
remote already has content. This can be faster, but might skip copying
content to the remote in some cases.
- --all -A
- Rather than specifying a filename or path to copy, this option can be used
to copy all available versions of all files.
- This is the default behavior when running git-annex in a bare
repository.
- --branch=ref
- Operate on files in the specified branch or treeish.
- --unused
- Operate on files found by last run of git-annex unused.
- --failed
- Operate on files that have recently failed to be transferred.
- --key=keyname
- Use this option to copy a specified key.
- matching
options
- The git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify what to
copy.
- --batch
- Enables batch mode, in which lines containing names of files to copy are
read from stdin.
- As each specified file is processed, the usual progress output is
displayed. If a file's content does not need to be copied, or it does not
match specified matching options, or it is not an annexed file, a blank
line is output in response instead.
- Since the usual output while copying a file is verbose and not
machine-parseable, you may want to use --json in combination with
--batch.
- --batch-keys
- This is like --batch but the lines read from stdin are parsed as
keys.
- -z
- Makes batch input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual
newlines.
- --json
- Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
- --json-progress
- Include progress objects in JSON output.
- --json-error-messages
- Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
the json instead.
- Also the
git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>