I noticed that, using just the man pages, there is no real description
of what backends are, or what ones are available. Except for some
examples.
Added a git-annex-backends man page, that is just a stub, but at least
describes what they basically are, and tells how to find the supported
ons, and links to the backends web page.
Sponsored-by: Brett Eisenberg on Patreon
While intended for converting URL keys added by addurl --fast to be
as if added by addurl --relaxed, it can also be used to remove size
from other types of keys. Although that is not likely to be useful
for checksummed keys, I suppose it could be used for WORM or other
non-checksum keys.
Specifying the --remove-size option does not prevent other migrations
from taking effect if there's a key upgrade to perform, or if the
backend has changed. So --backend=URL needs to be used to prevent
migrating an URL key to the default backend.
Note that it's not possible to use git-annex migrate to convert from a
non-URL key to an URL key, as URL keys cannot be generated, except by
addurl. So while this can get the same effect as --relaxed would have
when addurl --fast was used, when --fast was not used, it won't work, or
if --backend=URL is not used will remove the size but not prevent
checksum verification, which is not useful. Due to this complexity, I
decided not to mention it in the git-annex addurl man page.
Sponsored-by: Jochen Bartl on Patreon
Sometimes users would get confused because an option they were looking
for was not mentioned on a subcommand's man page, and they had not
noticed that the main git-annex man page had a list of common options.
This change lets each subcommand mention the common options, similarly
to how the matching options are handled.
This commit was sponsored by Svenne Krap on Patreon.
i found that most man pages only had references to the main git-annex
manpage, which i stillfind pretty huge and hard to navigate through.
i tried to sift through all the man pages and add cross-references
between relevant pages. my general rule of thumb is that links should
be both ways unless one of the pages is a more general page that would
become ridiculously huge if all backlinks would be added
(git-annex-preferred-content comes to mind).
i have also make the links one per line as this is how it was done in
the metadata pages so far.
i did everything but the plumbing, utility and test commands, although
some of those are linked from the other commands so cross-links were
added there as well.
