1git-annex-add(1)            General Commands Manual           git-annex-add(1)
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NAME

6       git-annex-add - adds files to the git annex
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SYNOPSIS

9       git annex add [path ...]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Adds  the  specified  files  to the annex. If a directory is specified,
13       acts on all files inside the directory and its subdirectories.   If  no
14       path is specified, adds files from the current directory and below.
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16       Files that are already checked into git and are unmodified, or that git
17       has been configured to ignore will be silently skipped.
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19       If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file, git annex
20       add will behave the same as git add and add the non-large file directly
21       to the git repository, instead of to the annex.  (By  default  dotfiles
22       are  assumed  to  not  be  large,  and  are  added directly to git, but
23       annex.dotfiles can be configured to annex those too.)
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25       Large files are added to the annex in locked form, which prevents  fur‐
26       ther   modification   of   their   content   unless  unlocked  by  git-
27       annex-unlock(1).  (This is not the case however when a repository is in
28       a filesystem not supporting symlinks.)
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30       This  command  can also be used to add symbolic links, both symlinks to
31       annexed content, and other symlinks.
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EXAMPLES

34        # git annex add foo bar
35        add foo ok
36        add bar ok
37        # git commit -m added
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OPTIONS

40       --no-check-gitignore
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42              Add gitignored files.
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44       --force-large
45              Treat all files as large files,  ignoring  annex.largefiles  and
46              annex.dotfiles configuration, and add to the annex.
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48       --force-small
49              Treat  all  files  as small files, ignoring annex.largefiles and
50              annex.dotfiles and annex.addsmallfiles configuration, and add to
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53       --backend
54              Specifies which key-value backend to use.
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56       file matching options
57              Many of the git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify
58              files to add.
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60              For example: --largerthan=1GB
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62       --jobs=N -JN
63              Adds multiple files in parallel. This may be faster.  For  exam‐
64              ple: -J4
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66              Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
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68       --update -u
69              Like  git  add  --update,  this  does not add new files, but any
70              updates to tracked files will be added to the index.
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72       --json Enable JSON output. This is intended to be  parsed  by  programs
73              that use git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
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75       --json-progress
76              Include progress objects in JSON output.
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78       --json-error-messages
79              Messages  that  would  normally  be output to standard error are
80              included in the json instead.
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82       --batch
83              Enables batch mode, in which a file to add is  read  in  a  line
84              from stdin, the file is added, and repeat.
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86              Note  that if a file is skipped (due to not existing, being git‐
87              ignored, already being in git,  or  doesn't  meet  the  matching
88              options),  an  empty  line  will be output instead of the normal
89              output produced when adding a file.
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91       -z     Makes the --batch input be delimited by  nulls  instead  of  the
92              usual newlines.
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SEE ALSO

95       git-annex(1)
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97       git-annex-unlock(1)
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99       git-annex-lock(1)
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101       git-annex-undo(1)
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103       git-annex-import(1)
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105       git-annex-unannex(1)
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107       git-annex-reinject(1)
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AUTHOR

110       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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