This ended up having an interface like sync, rather than like get/copy/drop.
That let it be implemented in terms of sync, which took a lot less code.
Also, it lets it handle many of the edge cases that sync does, such as
getting files that are not visible in a --hide-missing branch, and sending
files to exporttree remotes.
As well as being easier to implement, `git-annex satisfy myremote` makes
sense as it satisfies the preferred content settings of the remote.
`git-annex satisfy somefile` does not form a sentence that makes sense. So
while -C can be a little bit annoying, it still makes sense to have this
syntax.
Note that, while I initially thought this would also satisfy numcopies, it
does not. Arguably it ought to. But, sync does not send files in order to
satisfy numcopies, it only sends files to satisfy preferred content. And
it's important that this transfer the same files as sync does, because
it will probably be used in a workflow where the user sometimes syncs and
sometimes satisfies, and does not expect satisfy to do things that sync
would not do.
(Also opened a new bug that also affects sync et all, not only this command.)
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This was already possible, but it was rather hard to come up with the
complex shell command needed.
Note that the diff output starts with "diff a/... b/...".
I left off the "--git" because it's not a git format diff.
* config: Added the --show-origin and --for-file options.
* config: Support annex.numcopies and annex.mincopies.
There is a little bit of redundancy here with other code elsewhere that
combines the various configs and selects which to use. But really only
for the special case of annex.numcopies, which is a git config that does
not override the annex branch setting and for annex.mincopies, which does
not have a git config but does have gitattributes settings as well as the
annex branch setting.
That seems small enough, and unlikely enough to grow into a mess that it was
worth supporting annex.numcopies and annex.mincopies in git-annex config
--show-origin. Because these settings are a prime thing that someone might
get confused about and want to know where they were configured.
And, it followed that git-annex config might as well support those two
for --set and --get as well. While this is redundant with the speclialized
commands, it's only a little code and it makes it more consistent.
Note that --set does not have as nice output as numcopies/mincopies
commands in some special cases like setting to 0 or a negative number.
It does avoid setting to a bad value thanks to the smart
constructors (eg configuredNumCopies).
As for other git-annex branch configurations that are not set by git-annex
config, things like trust and wanted that are specific to a repository
don't map to a git config name, so don't really fit into git-annex config.
And they are only configured in the git-annex branch with no local override
(at least so far), so --show-origin would not be useful for them.
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