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

6       git-annex-forget - prune git-annex branch history
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SYNOPSIS

9       git annex forget
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DESCRIPTION

12       Causes  the  git-annex branch to be rewritten, throwing away historical
13       data about past locations of files. The resulting branch will use  less
14       space,  but  git annex log will not be able to show where files used to
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17       When this rewritten branch is merged into other clones of  the  reposi‐
18       tory,  git-annex will automatically perform the same rewriting to their
19       local git-annex branches. So the forgetfulness will automatically prop‐
20       agate  out  from its starting point until all repositories running git-
21       annex have forgotten their old history. (You may need to force  git  to
22       push the branch to any git repositories not running git-annex.)
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OPTIONS

25       --drop-dead
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27              Also  prune  references to repositories that have been marked as
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30       Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.
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SEE ALSO

33       git-annex(1)
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37       git-annex-filter-branch(1)
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AUTHOR

40       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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