From 7cfc481e4430eae7b0d349d6bb69292aa8a5b9e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: madduck Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:56:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- doc/forum/Automatically_dropping_files.mdwn | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Automatically_dropping_files.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Automatically_dropping_files.mdwn b/doc/forum/Automatically_dropping_files.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dd47d87d68 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Automatically_dropping_files.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I can make `git-annex` automatically fetch files with the [[/preferred content]] setting and the `--auto` flag, and it works almost exactly like I expect it to work. + +What I am missing is a way to make `git annex drop --auto` drop all files that are not wanted. + +I would like to work with metadata and tags in such a way that I can have clones (with views) that have only exactly those files available which carry a tag (done), and all other files automatically removed from the annex (unless that would be unsafe). + +Does anyone know how to achieve this?