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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="kyle"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/7d6e85cde1422ad60607c87fa87c63f3"
subject="comment 3"
date="2020-05-21T17:06:12Z"
content="""
> If I revert to a previous commit, the metadata changes are not
> reverted to their previous state.
Metadata is attached to keys, not files. (See `man
git-annex-metadata`.) If the state you revert to has the same key, it
will have the same associated metadata.
> Is there a way to revert metadata?
AFAIU not in a way that is tied to the HEAD commit. You can run `git
annex metadata --remove-all FILE`, but that will remove the metadata
on the underlying key.
> If I understood that correctly, the metadata are stored in a single
> git-annex branch: so there is no way to have two regular branches with
> different metadata for the same file, right?
Correct.
> Does any call to git-annex metadata creates a new commit in the
> git-annex branch?
I believe so, provided the caller hasn't overridden
`annex.alwayscommit` to \"false\".
> The commit message of the git-annex branch are not super
> informative: they all say \"update\".
In my view generic messages like \"update\" make a lot of sense in the
context of the behind-the-scenes git-annex branch. If you're
inspecting it just because you're curious about what's happening
underneath, you might find the output of `git log --stat git-annex`
helpful.
That being said, there is an `annex.commitmessage` config option if
you want to override the message.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/be_able_to_specify_custom_commit_message_for_git-annex_branch_commit/
> A related question: is there a way to get the git-annex branch commit
> that matches a regular/master branch commit?
I don't think there is any such mapping by design.
"""]]