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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="kyle"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/7d6e85cde1422ad60607c87fa87c63f3"
subject="comment 2"
date="2020-12-11T15:29:26Z"
content="""
> I want a command that creates B: git annex ln A B
> Apologies if there is already such a git annex command. There
> doesn't seem to be a direct equivalent in cp's arguments or rsync's
> arguments to fixup the relative link path while copying it, and it
> needs a longer series of piped commands.
I'm not aware of a git-annex command that does this, but you can just
copy the link and `git annex add` it. git-annex will fix up the
levels if needed.
```
$ cp -d d/foo.txt bar.txt
$ git annex add bar.txt
$ git show :d/foo.txt
../.git/annex/objects/8Z/1J/SHA256-s4--b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c/SHA256-s4--b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c
$ git show :bar.txt
.git/annex/objects/8Z/1J/SHA256-s4--b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c/SHA256-s4--b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c
```
"""]]