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add a plea for saving the the old 'import /dir' interface as a renamed, reduced command

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--[[Joey]]
> Just a small plea. 🙏
> I'd rather see the the old functionality spared, although in a gutted
> form as a command called `git-annex-ingest` (as the name was suggested by
> [[Ilya_Shlyakhter]] in [[change git-annex-import not to delete original files by default]]).
> It would have none of the presumably confusing `--*duplicate*` options.
> It would still *move* files into the annex thus saving a lot of disk space
> when you're in a tight spot; as I see it for instance the "import with no options"
> case as suggested below would pretty much double the disk space
> requirements during the import. Also ingesting/importing huge files
> by moving instead of copying them into the annex saves a lot of time, too.
> --[[jkniiv]]
Let's consider the cases:
## import with no options