# NAME

git-annex log - shows location log information

# SYNOPSIS

git annex log `[path ...]`

# DESCRIPTION

This command displays information from the history of the git-annex branch. 

Several things can prevent that information being available to display.
When [[git-annex-dead]] and [[git-annex-forget]] are used, old historical
data gets cleared from the branch. When annex.private or
remote.name.annex-private is configured, git-annex does not write
information to the branch at all. And when annex.alwayscommit is set to
false, information may not have been committed to the branch yet.

# OPTIONS

* `[path ...]`

  Displays the location log for the specified file or files, showing each
  repository they were added to ("+") and removed from ("-"). Note that
  it displays information about the file content currently at these paths,
  not for any different content that was there in earlier commits.

* matching options
  
  The [[git-annex-matching-options]](1)
  can be used to control what to act on when displaying the location log
  for specified files.

* `--all` `-A`

  Shows location log changes to all content, with the most recent changes first.
  In this mode, the names of files are not available and keys are displayed
  instead.

* `--sizesof=repository`

  Displays a history of the size of the annexed files in a repository as it
  changed over time from the creation of the repository to the present.

  The repository can be "here" for the current repository, or the name of a
  remote, or a repository description or uuid.

  Note that keys that do not have a known size are skipped.

* `--sizes`

  This is like --sizesof, but rather than display the size of a single
  repository, it displays the sizes of all known repositories in a table.

* `--totalsizes`

  This is like `--sizesof`, but it displays the total size of all
  known repositories.

  Note that dead repositories have their size included in the total
  for times before the point they were marked dead. Once marked dead,
  their size will no longer be included in the total.

* `--when=time`

  When using `--sizesof`, `--sizes`, and `--totalsizes`, this 
  controls how often to display the size. The default is to
  display each change to the size.

  The time is of the form "30d" or "1y".

* `--since=date`, `--after=date`, `--until=date`, `--before=date`, `--max-count=N`

  These options are passed through to `git log`, and can be used to limit
  how far back to search for location log changes.
  
  For example: `--since "1 month ago"`

  These options do not have an affect when using `--sizesof`, `--sizes`, 
  and `--totalsizes`.

* `--bytes`

  Show sizes in bytes, disabling the default nicer units.

* `--raw-date`

  Rather than the normal display of a date in the local time zone,
  displays seconds since the unix epoch.

* `--gource`

  Generates output suitable for the `gource` visualization program.
  
  This option does not have an affect when using `--sizesof`, `--sizes`, 
  and `--totalsizes`.

* `--json`

  Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
  git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
  
  This option does not have an affect when using `--sizesof`, `--sizes`, 
  and `--totalsizes`.

* `--json-error-messages`

  Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
  the JSON instead.
  
  This option does not have an affect when using `--sizesof`, `--sizes`, 
  and `--totalsizes`.

* Also the [[git-annex-common-options]](1) can be used.

# SEE ALSO

[[git-annex]](1)

[[git-annex-forget]](1)

# AUTHOR

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

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