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nickname="stephane-gourichon-lpad"
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subject="User expectations and what git annex unannex does."
date="2017-07-24T08:06:55Z"
content="""
# Where we are
@joey thank you for these explanations, more detailed than when I reported the same problem 8 months ago commenting https://git-annex.branchable.com/git-annex-unannex/ (@tom.prince had already written this page but I did not find it).
Yet all this happens in a git world, where private history can be rewritten, so *there must be a simpler way*.
# What people expect from \"undo accidental add command\"
@tom.prince thanks for explaining what you expected `unannex` to do. Looks like I expected exactly the same behavior.
IMHO current behavior of `git annex unannex` does not match what people expect of \"undo accidental add command\".
# What current `git-annex unannex` actually does
If behavior does not match words, perhaps behavior is interesting but should be matched with different words?
Looking at what `git-annex unannex`, here are the words that came to mind:
> git-annex unannex - turn a path which points to annexed content into a plain file that is store in regular git.
Notice that:
* `git-annex` retains history
* other paths may still refer to the same content, so the annex may still contain a copy of the same data. Else it becomes unused content subject to `git-annex dropunused`.
Thank you for your attention.
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