NAME¶

annex-to-annex - use hardlinks to migrate files between git annex repos

VERSION¶

version 0.008

SYNOPSIS¶

annex-to-annex [--commit] source ... destination

DESCRIPTION¶

This script moves files and directories from one or more git annexes into a destination git annex, where possible using hardlinks instead of copying files.

It is useful for splitting and consolidating git annexes. For example, at the end of the semester I use this script to move files from my work annex, which gets synced to a lot of places, into an archival annex, which doesn't.

Each source should be a file or directory in a git annex. destination should be a subdirectory of a git annex.

OPTIONS¶

--commit

Commit changes in the source and destination annexes. Otherwise changes are merely added to the index.

SEE ALSO¶

git-annex(1), annex-to-annex-dropunused(1), annex-to-annex-reinject(1)

AUTHOR¶

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This software is Copyright (c) 2019-2021 by Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007