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improve git annex move in walkthrough

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@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ USB drive.
Notice that you had to git pull from home first, this lets git-annex know
what has changed in home, and so it knows about the files present there and
can get them. See below for an easier way.
can get them.
## transferring files: When things go wrong
@ -137,17 +137,6 @@ But `other.iso` looks to have never been copied to anywhere else, so if
it's something you want to hold onto, you'd need to transfer it to
some other repository before dropping it.
## moving file content to another repository
Often you will want to transfer some file contents from a repository to
some other one, and then drop it from the first repository. For example,
your laptop's disk is getting full; time to move some files to an external
disk. Doing that by hand is possible, but a bit of a pain. `git annex move`
makes it very easy.
# git annex move my_cool_big_file --to usbdrive
move my_cool_big_file (to usbdrive...) ok
## using ssh remotes
So far git-annex has been used with a remote repository on a USB drive.
@ -183,6 +172,21 @@ access, if available. There is a annex-cost setting you can configure in
Also, note that you need full shell access for this to work --
git-annex needs to be able to ssh in and run commands.
## moving file content to another repository
Often you will want to move some file contents from a repository to some
other one. For example, your laptop's disk is getting full; time to move
some files to an external disk before moving another file from home to your
laptop. Doing that by hand (by using `git annex get` and `git annex drop`)
is possible, but a bit of a pain. `git annex move` makes it very easy.
# git annex move my_cool_big_file --to usbdrive
move my_cool_big_file (copying to usbdrive...) ok
# git annex move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov --from home
move video/hackity_hack_and_kaxxt.mov (copying from home...)a
WORM:1274316523:86050597:hackity_hack_and_kax 100% 82MB 199.1KB/s 07:02
(dropping from home...) ok
## using the URL backend
git-annex has multiple key-value [[backends]]. So far this walkthrough has