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Added new "anything" preferred content expression, which matches all versions of all files.

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Joey Hess 2015-06-16 17:03:34 -04:00
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@ -174,9 +174,10 @@ The --unused option makes git-annex operate on every key that `git annex
unused` has determined to be unused. The corresponding `unused` keyword
in a preferred content expression also matches those keys.
However, the latter doesn't make git-annex consider those keys. So
when git-annex is only checking preferred content expressions against files
in the repository (which are obviously used), `unused` in a preferred
However, using `unused` in a preferred content expression
doesn't make git-annex consider those keys. So when git-annex is
only checking preferred content expressions against files in the
repository (which are obviously used), `unused` in a preferred
content expression won't match anything.
So when is `unused` useful in a preferred content expression?
@ -189,6 +190,11 @@ So when is `unused` useful in a preferred content expression?
including unused ones, and take `unused` in preferred content expressions
into account.
### difference: anything
The "anything" keyword can be used in a preferred content expression
to match any version of any file.
## upgrades
It's important that all clones of a repository can understand one-another's
@ -205,6 +211,7 @@ it assumes all files that are currently present are preferred content.
Here are recent changes to preferred content expressions, and the version
they were added in.
* "anything" 5.20150616
* "standard" 5.20140314
(only when used in a more complicated expression; "standard" by
itself has been supported for a long time)