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6 git-annex-unused - look for unused file content
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9 git annex unused
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12 Checks the annex for data that does not correspond to any files present
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16 After running this command, you can use the --unused option with many
17 other git-annex commands to operate on all the unused data that was
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20 For example, to move all unused data to origin:
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22 git annex unused; git annex move --unused --to origin
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27 Only show unused temp and bad files.
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30 Check for unused data that is located in a repository.
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35 --used-refspec=+ref:-ref
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45 The git configuration annex.used-refspec can be used to config‐
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48 Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.
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79 annex unused take some time to complete, it if needs to check every ref
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83 git-annex(1)
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85 git-annex-dropunused(1)
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87 git-annex-addunused(1)
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89 git-annex-whereused(1)
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92 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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94 git-annex-unused(1)