NAME
git-annex import - move and add files from outside git working copy
SYNOPSIS
git annex import [path ...]
DESCRIPTION
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 anther repository that contains it.
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.
OPTIONS
--duplicate
Do not delete files from the import location.
This could allow importing the same files repeatedly to different locations in a repository. More likely, it could be used to import the same files to a number of different branches or separate git repositories.
--deduplicate
Only import files that are not duplicates; duplicate files will be deleted from the import location.
--skip-duplicates
Only import files that are not duplicates; and avoid deleting duplicate files from the import location.
--clean-duplicates
Does not import any files, but any files found in the import location that are duplicates are deleted.
file matching options
Many of the git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify files to import.
git annex import /dir --include='*.png'
CAVEATS
Note that using --deduplicate
or --clean-duplicates
with the WORM
backend does not look at file content, but filename and mtime.
SEE ALSO
git-annex(1)
AUTHOR
Joey Hess d;d;d;d;d;d;d;d;d;d;d;d;d;
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