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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.
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# NAME
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git-annex forget - prune git-annex branch history
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# SYNOPSIS
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git annex forget
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# DESCRIPTION
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Causes the git-annex branch to be rewritten, throwing away historical
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data about past locations of files. The resulting branch will use less
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space, but `git annex log` will not be able to show where
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files used to be located.
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When this rewritten branch is merged into other clones of
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the repository, `git-annex` will automatically perform the same rewriting
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to their local `git-annex` branches. So the forgetfulness will automatically
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propagate out from its starting point until all repositories running
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git-annex have forgotten their old history. (You may need to force
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git to push the branch to any git repositories not running git-annex.)
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# OPTIONS
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* `--drop-dead`
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Also prune references to repositories that have been marked as dead.
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* Also the [[git-annex-common-options]](1) can be used.
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# SEE ALSO
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[[git-annex]](1)
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# AUTHOR
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Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care.
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