git-annex/doc/git-annex-drop.mdwn
Antoine Beaupré 21ec5872f4 expand manpages cross-references significantly
i found that most man pages only had references to the main git-annex
manpage, which i stillfind pretty huge and hard to navigate through.

i tried to sift through all the man pages and add cross-references
between relevant pages. my general rule of thumb is that links should
be both ways unless one of the pages is a more general page that would
become ridiculously huge if all backlinks would be added
(git-annex-preferred-content comes to mind).

i have also make the links one per line as this is how it was done in
the metadata pages so far.

i did everything but the plumbing, utility and test commands, although
some of those are linked from the other commands so cross-links were
added there as well.
2015-05-29 12:12:55 -04:00

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# NAME
git-annex drop - indicate content of files not currently wanted
# SYNOPSIS
git annex drop `[path ...]`
# DESCRIPTION
Drops the content of annexed files from this repository, when
possible.
git-annex will refuse to drop content if it cannot verify it is
safe to do so.
# OPTIONS
* `--from=remote`
Rather than dropping the content of files in the local repository,
this option can specifiy a remote from which the files'
contents should be removed.
* `--auto`
Rather than trying to drop all specified files, drop only files that
are not preferred content of the repository.
See [[git-annex-preferred-content]](1)
* `--force`
Use this option with care! It bypasses safety checks, and forces
git-annex to delete the content of the specified files, even from
the last repository that is storing their content. Data loss can
result from using this option.
* `--all`
Rather than specifying a filename or path to drop, this option can be
used to drop all available versions of all files.
This is the default behavior when running git-annex drop in a bare repository.
* `--unused`
Drop files found by last run of git-annex unused.
* `--key=keyname`
Use this option to drop a specified key.
* file matching options
The [[git-annex-matching-options]](1)
can be used to specify files to drop.
# SEE ALSO
[[git-annex]](1)
[[git-annex-get]](1)
[[git-annex-move]](1)
[[git-annex-copy]](1)
# AUTHOR
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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