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A git-annex key has this format:
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BACKEND[-sNNNN][-mNNNN][-SNNNN-CNNNN]--NAME
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For example:
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SHA256E-s31390--f50d7ac4c6b9031379986bc362fcefb65f1e52621ce1708d537e740fefc59cc0.mp3
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* The backend is one of the [[key-value_backends|backends]], which
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are always upper-cased.
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* The name field at the end has a format dependent on the backend. It is
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always the last field, and is prefixed with "--". Unlike other fields,
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it may contain "-" in its content. It should not contain newline
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characters or "/"; otherwise nearly anything goes.
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* The "-s" field is optional, and is the size of the content in bytes.
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* The "-m" field is optional, and is the mtime of the file when it was
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added to git-annex, expressed as seconds from the epoch.
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This is currently only used by the WORM backend.
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* The "-S" and "-C" fields are only used for keys that are chunks
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of some other key. "-S" is the size of the chunk, and "-C" is the chunk
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number (starting at 1).
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* Other fields could be added in the future, if needed.
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git-annex always puts the fields in the order shown above when serializing
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a key. Older versions of git-annex would parse keys with the fields in other
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orders (although the name field must always come last), but the current
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version requires the fields come in the order shown above.
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The [[`git annex examinekey`|git-annex-examinekey]] command can be used to extract information from
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a key.
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