git-annex/doc/git-annex-get.mdwn
Joey Hess 12460fcea6
make --batch honor matching options
When --batch is used with matching options like --in, --metadata, etc, only
operate on the provided files when they match those options. Otherwise, a
blank line is output in the batch protocol.

Affected commands: find, add, whereis, drop, copy, move, get

In the case of find, the documentation for --batch already said it honored
the matching options. The docs for the rest didn't, but it makes sense to
have them honor them. While this is a behavior change, why specify the
matching options with --batch if you didn't want them to apply?

Note that the batch output for all of the affected commands could
already output a blank line in other cases, so batch users should
already be prepared to deal with it.

git-annex metadata didn't seem worth making support the matching options,
since all it does is output metadata or set metadata, the use cases for
using it in combination with the martching options seem small. Made it
refuse to run when they're combined, leaving open the possibility for later
support if a use case develops.

This commit was sponsored by Brett Eisenberg on Patreon.
2018-08-08 12:07:06 -04:00

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# NAME
git-annex get - make content of annexed files available
# SYNOPSIS
git annex get `[path ...]`
# DESCRIPTION
Makes the content of annexed files available in this repository. This
will involve copying them from a remote repository, or downloading them,
or transferring them from some kind of key-value store.
# OPTIONS
* `--auto`
Rather than getting all files, get only files that don't yet have
the desired number of copies, or that are preferred content of the
repository. See [[git-annex-preferred-content]](1)
* `--from=remote`
Normally git-annex will choose which remotes to get the content
from, preferring remotes with lower costs. Use this option to specify
which remote to use.
Any files that are not available on the remote will be silently skipped.
* `--jobs=N` `-JN`
Enables parallel download with up to the specified number of jobs
running at once. For example: `-J10`
When files can be downloaded from multiple remotes, enabling parallel
downloads will split the load between the remotes. For example, if
the files are available on remotes A and B, then one file will be
downloaded from A, and another file will be downloaded from B in
parallel. (Remotes with lower costs are still preferred over higher cost
remotes.)
* file matching options
The [[git-annex-matching-options]](1)
can be used to specify files to get.
* `--incomplete`
Resume any incomplete downloads of files that were started and
interrupted at some point previously. Useful to pick up where you left
off ... when you don't quite remember where that was.
These incomplete files are the same ones that are
listed as unused temp files by [[git-annex-unused]](1).
Note that the git-annex key will be displayed when downloading,
as git-annex does not know the associated file, and the associated file
may not even be in the current git working directory.
* `--all` `-A`
Rather than specifying a filename or path to get, this option can be
used to get all available versions of all files.
This is the default behavior when running git-annex in a bare repository.
* `--branch=ref`
Operate on files in the specified branch or treeish.
* `--unused`
Operate on files found by last run of git-annex unused.
* `--failed`
Operate on files that have recently failed to be transferred.
Not to be confused with `--incomplete` which resumes only downloads
that managed to transfer part of the content of a file.
* `--key=keyname`
Use this option to get a specified key.
* `--batch`
Enables batch mode, in which lines containing names of files to get
are read from stdin.
As each specified file is processed, the usual progress output is
displayed. If the specified file's content is already present,
or it does not match specified matching options, or
it is not an annexed file, a blank line is output in response instead.
Since the usual output while getting a file is verbose and not
machine-parseable, you may want to use --json in combination with
--batch.
* `--json`
Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
* `--json-progress`
Include progress objects in JSON output.
* `--json-error-messages`
Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
the json instead.
# SEE ALSO
[[git-annex]](1)
[[git-annex-drop]](1)
[[git-annex-copy]](1)
[[git-annex-move]](1)
# AUTHOR
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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