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Joey Hess
aa0350ff49
add directory to views for files that lack specified metadata
* view: New field?=glob and ?tag syntax that includes a directory "_"
  in the view for files that do not have the specified metadata set.
* Added annex.viewunsetdirectory git config to change the name of the
  "_" directory in a view.

When in a view using the new syntax, old git-annex will fail to parse the
view log. It errors with "Not in a view.", which is not ideal. But that
only affects view commands.

annex.viewunsetdirectory is included in the View for a couple of reasons.
One is to avoid needing to warn the user that it should not be changed when
in a view, since that would confuse git-annex. Another reason is that it
helped with plumbing the value through to some pure functions.

annex.viewunsetdirectory is actually mangled the same as any other view
directory. So if it's configured to something like "N/A", there won't be
multiple levels of directories, which would also confuse git-annex.

Sponsored-By: Jack Hill on Patreon
2023-02-07 16:28:46 -04:00
Joey Hess
5e7aa16d06
improve docs of view exclude values 2023-02-07 12:46:19 -04:00
Joey Hess
115f72766b
correct docs on view exclude values to not say globs work
globs have never worked in field!=
see commit c2e8c21ca6 when the feature was
added, which discussed why
2023-02-07 12:42:26 -04:00
Joey Hess
b184fc490a
split out common options to its own page and mention it on each subcommand page
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.
2021-05-10 15:00:13 -04:00
Joey Hess
781d0e3762
document ! syntax 2016-05-03 14:02:22 -04:00
Joey Hess
5eab84dd3f
improve docs 2016-02-23 10:46:42 -04:00
Joey Hess
e6a1998579 expand 2015-07-20 13:48:01 -04:00
Joey Hess
0b029570a7 finished splitting out man pages for all commands 2015-03-25 12:09:49 -04:00