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# NAME
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git-annex import - move and add files from outside git working copy
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# SYNOPSIS
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git annex import `[path ...]`
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# DESCRIPTION
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Moves files from somewhere outside the git working copy, and adds them to
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the annex. Individual files to import can be specified.
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If a directory is specified, the entire directory is imported.
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git annex import /media/camera/DCIM/*
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When importing files, there's a possibility of importing a duplicate
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of a file that is already known to git-annex -- its content is either
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present in the local repository already, or git-annex knows of anther
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repository that contains it.
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By default, importing a duplicate of a known file will result in
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a new filename being added to the repository, so the duplicate file
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is present in the repository twice. (With all checksumming backends,
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including the default SHA256E, only one copy of the data will be stored.)
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Several options can be used to adjust handling of duplicate files.
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# OPTIONS
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* `--duplicate`
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Do not delete files from the import location.
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This could allow importing the same files repeatedly
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to different locations in a repository. More likely, it could be used to
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import the same files to a number of different branches or separate git
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repositories.
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* `--deduplicate`
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Only import files that are not duplicates;
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duplicate files will be deleted from the import location.
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* `--skip-duplicates`
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Only import files that are not duplicates; and avoid deleting
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duplicate files from the import location.
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* `--clean-duplicates`
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Does not import any files, but any files found in the import location
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that are duplicates are deleted.
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* file matching options
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Many of the [[git-annex-matching-options]](1)
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can be used to specify files to import.
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git annex import /dir --include='*.png'
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# CAVEATS
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Note that using `--deduplicate` or `--clean-duplicates` with the WORM
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backend does not look at file content, but filename and mtime.
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# SEE ALSO
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[[git-annex]](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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