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# NAME
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git-annex get - make content of annexed files available
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# SYNOPSIS
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git annex get `[path ...]`
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# DESCRIPTION
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Makes the content of annexed files available in this repository. This
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will involve copying them from a remote repository, or downloading them,
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or transferring them from some kind of key-value store.
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With no parameters, gets all annexed files in the current directory whose
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content was not already present. Paths of files or directories to get can
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be specified.
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# EXAMPLES
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# evince foo.pdf
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error: Unable to open document foo.pdf: No such file or directory
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# ls foo.pdf
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foo.pdf@
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# git annex get foo.pdf
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get foo.pdf (from origin..) ok
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# evince foo.pdf
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# OPTIONS
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* `--auto`
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Rather than getting all the specified files, get only those that don't yet
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have the desired number of copies, or that are preferred content of the
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repository. See [[git-annex-preferred-content]](1)
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* `--from=remote`
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Normally git-annex will choose which remotes to get the content
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from, preferring remotes with lower costs. Use this option to specify
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which remote to use.
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Any files that are not available on the remote will be silently skipped.
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* `--jobs=N` `-JN`
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Enables parallel download with up to the specified number of jobs
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running at once. For example: `-J10`
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Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
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When files can be downloaded from multiple remotes, enabling parallel
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downloads will split the load between the remotes. For example, if
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the files are available on remotes A and B, then one file will be
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downloaded from A, and another file will be downloaded from B in
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parallel. (Remotes with lower costs are still preferred over higher cost
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remotes.)
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* file matching options
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The [[git-annex-matching-options]](1)
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can be used to specify files to get.
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* `--incomplete`
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Resume any incomplete downloads of files that were started and
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interrupted at some point previously. Useful to pick up where you left
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off ... when you don't quite remember where that was.
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These incomplete files are the same ones that are
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listed as unused temp files by [[git-annex-unused]](1).
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Note that the git-annex key will be displayed when downloading,
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as git-annex does not know the associated file, and the associated file
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may not even be in the current git working directory.
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* `--all` `-A`
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Rather than specifying a filename or path to get, this option can be
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used to get all available versions of all files.
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This is the default behavior when running git-annex in a bare repository.
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* `--branch=ref`
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Operate on files in the specified branch or treeish.
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* `--unused`
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Operate on files found by last run of git-annex unused.
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* `--failed`
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Operate on files that have recently failed to be transferred.
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Not to be confused with `--incomplete` which resumes only downloads
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that managed to transfer part of the content of a file.
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* `--key=keyname`
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Use this option to get a specified key.
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* `--batch`
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Enables batch mode, in which lines containing names of files to get
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are read from stdin.
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As each specified file is processed, the usual progress output is
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displayed. If the specified file's content is already present,
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or it does not match specified matching options, or
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it is not an annexed file, a blank line is output in response instead.
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Since the usual output while getting a file is verbose and not
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machine-parseable, you may want to use --json in combination with
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--batch.
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* `-z`
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Makes the `--batch` input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual
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newlines.
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* `--json`
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Enable JSON output. This is intended to be parsed by programs that use
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git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
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* `--json-progress`
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Include progress objects in JSON output.
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* `--json-error-messages`
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Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in
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the json instead.
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# SEE ALSO
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[[git-annex]](1)
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[[git-annex-drop]](1)
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[[git-annex-copy]](1)
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[[git-annex-move]](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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