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Joey Hess
484a74f073
auto-init autoenable=yes
Try to enable special remotes configured with autoenable=yes when git-annex
auto-initialization happens in a new clone of an existing repo. Previously,
git-annex init had to be explicitly run to enable them. That was a bit of a
wart of a special case for users to need to keep in mind.

Special remotes cannot display anything when autoenabled this way, to avoid
interfering with the output of git-annex query commands.

Any error messages will be hidden, and if it fails, nothing is displayed.
The user will realize the remote isn't enable when they try to use it,
and can run git-annex init manually then to try the autoenable again and
see what failed.

That seems like a reasonable approach, and it's less complicated than
communicating something across a pipe in order to display it as a side
message. Other reason not to do that is that, if the first command the
user runs is one like git-annex find that has machine readable output,
any message about autoenable failing would need to not be displayed anyway.
So better to not display a failure message ever, for consistency.

(Had to split out Remote.List.Util to avoid an import cycle.)
2020-05-27 12:40:35 -04:00
Joey Hess
5c6bf1be97
--whatelse is a better name than --describe-other-params
The use case is basically the user having forgotten, so --help would be
best, but it would be quite hard to include this in --help, since it may
even have to spin up an external special remote program.

I also considered --umm but typoed it the first time I tried it as
--uum, and while memorable, it's too cutesy. --whatelse is good because
it explicitly asks, what other params, besides the ones I've given?
2020-01-20 17:04:45 -04:00
Joey Hess
aa949bbb7d
initremote --describe-other-params
Does not yet include descriptions from external special remote programs.
2020-01-20 16:05:51 -04:00
Joey Hess
987076690c
started on --list-params-for 2020-01-15 14:09:30 -04:00
Joey Hess
1b9c1d1737
fix sameas inherited key removal 2019-10-11 13:18:27 -04:00
Joey Hess
61b384d2b7
add --sameas option, not yet used 2019-10-01 12:36:25 -04:00
Joey Hess
7f50371bf2
split out section on common configuration parameters 2019-04-16 13:09:12 -04:00
Joey Hess
c0c38e986d
added renameremote command 2019-04-15 13:49:03 -04:00
Joey Hess
27e89aeffc
initremote: When a uuid= parameter is passed, use the specified UUID for the new special remote, instead of generating a UUID.
This can be useful in some situations, eg when the same data can be
accessed via two different special remote backends.
2017-02-07 15:10:41 -04:00
Joey Hess
afb332a142
replace redudundant and incomplete encryption para with link 2016-05-24 14:38:59 -04:00
Joey Hess
9cfb96c53d Special remotes configured with autoenable=true will be automatically enabled when git-annex init is run. 2015-09-14 14:49:48 -04:00
Antoine Beaupré
21ec5872f4 expand manpages cross-references significantly
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.
2015-05-29 12:12:55 -04:00
Joey Hess
f10282807e separated man pages for all the setup commands while at the gate in ATL 2015-03-23 18:20:42 -04:00