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

Annex/FileMatcher.hs

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ parseToken matchstandard matchgroupwanted checkpresent checkpreferreddir groupma
 	| t == "present" = use checkpresent
 	| t == "inpreferreddir" = use checkpreferreddir
 	| t == "unused" = Right $ Operation limitUnused
+	| t == "anything" = Right $ Operation limitAnything
 	| otherwise = maybe (Left $ "near " ++ show t) use $ M.lookup k $
 		M.fromList
 			[ ("include", limitInclude)

Limit.hs

@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ limitUnused :: MatchFiles Annex
 limitUnused _ (MatchingFile _) = return False
 limitUnused _ (MatchingKey k) = S.member k <$> unusedKeys
 
+{- Limit that matches any version of any file. -}
+limitAnything :: MatchFiles Annex
+limitAnything _ _ = return True
+
 {- Adds a limit to skip files not believed to be present in all
  - repositories in the specified group. -}
 addInAllGroup :: String -> Annex ()

debian/changelog

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-git-annex (5.20150529) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+git-annex (5.20150616) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * fromkey, registerurl: Improve handling of urls that happen to also
     be parsable as strange keys.
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ git-annex (5.20150529) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * info: Added json output for "backend usage", "numcopies stats",
     "repositories containing these files", and "transfers in progress".
   * sync: Add support for --all and --unused.
+  * Added new "anything" preferred content expression, which matches all
+    versions of all files.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Sat, 30 May 2015 02:07:18 -0400
 

doc/preferred_content.mdwn

@@ -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
+However, using `unused` in a preferred content expression 
-when git-annex is only checking preferred content expressions against files
+doesn't make git-annex consider those keys. So when git-annex is
-in the repository (which are obviously used), `unused` in a preferred
+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)