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This is intended for users who want to see what it would output in order to eg, check if a file would be added to git or the annex. It is not intended as a way for scripts to get information. Sponsored-by: Dartmouth College's Datalad project
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Previous discussion which touched upon it was [7 years ago](https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/wishlist__58___--dry-run_option_for_all_commands/) (unless I missed some) where part of the response was
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> I don't see the benefit to justify this work. git annex add is entirely predictable; it's very similar to git add. Which itself lacks a dry-run option.
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Oh well:
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```
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$> git add --help | grep -e '-n, --dry' -A1
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-n, --dry-run
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Don’t actually add the file(s), just show if they exist and/or will be ignored.
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```
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and users [submit requests against DataLad](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/6909) to be able to discover what file would go to git and which to git-annex. Also would be useful to know if to git-annex -- would it be locked or unlocked? Someone else might even want to discover what would be the annex key if it would go into annex, but so far I do not think it is within our desired use-case and it might be too lengthy to compute the key checksum etc.
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As for
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> And like git add, you can certianly undo the effects of git annex add.
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well -- unless there was a version staged already you don't want to loose etc.
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[[!meta author=yoh]]
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[[!tag projects/datalad]]
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> [[done]] joey
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