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SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

The adjusted branch will have a name like "adjusted/master(unlocked)". Since it's a regular git branch, you can use git checkout to switch back to the original branch at any time.

While in the adjusted branch, you can use git-annex and git commands as usual. Any commits that you make will initially only be made to the adjusted branch.

To propagate commits from the adjusted branch back to the original branch, and to other repositories, as well as to merge in changes from other repositories, run git annex sync.

Re-running this command with the same options while inside the adjusted branch will update the adjusted branch as necessary (eg for --hide-missing), and will also propagate commits back to the original branch.

This command can only be used in a v6 git-annex repository.

OPTIONS¶

--unlock

Unlock all annexed files in the adjusted branch. This allows annexed files to be modified.

Normally, unlocking a file requires a copy to be made of its content, so that its original content is preserved, while the copy can be modified. To use less space, annex.thin can be set to true before running this command; this makes a hard link to the content be made instead of a copy. (When supported by the file system.) While this can save considerable disk space, any modification made to a file will cause the old version of the file to be lost from the local repository. So, enable annex.thin with care.

--fix

Fix the symlinks to annexed files to point to the local git annex object directory. This can be useful if a repository is checked out in an unusual way that prevents the symlinks committed to git from pointing at the annex objects.

--hide-missing

Only include annexed files in the adjusted branch when their content is present.

The adjusted branch is not immediately changed when content availability changes, so if you git annex drop files, they will become broken links in the usual way. And when files that were missing are copied into the repository from elsewhere, they won't immediatly become visible in the branch.

To update the adjusted branch to reflect changes to content availability, run git annex adjust --hide-missing again.

Despite missing files being hidden, git annex sync --content will still operate on them, and can be used to download missing files from remotes.

This option can be combined with --unlock or --fix.

SEE ALSO¶

git-annex-unlock(1)

git-annex-upgrade(1)

git-annex-sync(1)

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