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In .gitattributes, the git-annex-numcopies attribute can be used to control the number of copies to retain of different types of files.

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@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ your git repository's `.git` directory, not in some external data store.
It's important that data not get lost by an ill-considered `git annex drop`
command. So, then using those backends, git-annex can be configured to try
to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories. By
default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies.
to keep N copies of a file's content available across all repositories.
By default, N is 1; it is configured by annex.numcopies. This default
can be overridden on a per-file-type basis by the git-annex-numcopies
setting in the `.gitattributes` file.
`git annex drop` attempts to check with other git remotes, to check that N
copies of the file exist. If enough repositories cannot be verified to have

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@ -275,6 +275,12 @@ but the SHA1 backend for ogg files:
* git-annex-backend=WORM
*.ogg git-annex-backend=SHA1
The numcopies setting can also be configured on a per-file-type basis via
the `git-annex-numcopies` attribute. For example, this makes two copies
be needed for ogg files:
*.ogg git-annex-numcopies=2
# FILES
These files are used, in your git repository: