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NAME

6       git-annex-copy - copy content of files to/from another repository
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SYNOPSIS

9       git annex copy [path ...] [--from=remote|--to=remote]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Copies the content of files from or to another remote.
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14       With no parameters, operates on all annexed files in the current direc‐
15       tory.  Paths of files or directories to operate on can be specified.
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OPTIONS

18       --from=remote
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20              Copy the content of files from the specified remote to the local
21              repository.
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23              Any  files that are not available on the remote will be silently
24              skipped.
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26       --to=remote
27              Copy the content of files from the local repository to the spec‐
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30       --to=here
31              Copy  the content of files from all reachable remotes to the lo‐
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34       --from=remote1 --to=remote2
35              Copy the content of files that are in remote1 to remote2.
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37              This is implemented by first downloading the  content  from  re‐
38              mote1  to  the  local  repository (if not already present), then
39              sending it to remote2, and then deleting the  content  from  the
40              local repository (if it was not present to start with).
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42       --jobs=N -JN
43              Enables  parallel  transfers  with up to the specified number of
44              jobs running at once. For example: -J10
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46              Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.
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48              Note that when using --from with --to, twice this many jobs will
49              run at once, evenly split between the two remotes.
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51       --auto Rather  than  copying  all specified files, only copy those that
52              don't yet have the desired number of copies, or  that  are  pre‐
53              ferred content of the destination repository. See git-annex-pre‐
54              ferred-content(1)
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56       --fast When copying content to a remote, avoid a round trip to check if
57              the  remote  already  has content. This can be faster, but might
58              skip copying content to the remote in some cases.
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60       --all -A
61              Rather than specifying a filename or path to copy,  this  option
62              can be used to copy all available versions of all files.
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64              This  is  the  default behavior when running git-annex in a bare
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67       --branch=ref
68              Operate on files in the specified branch or treeish.
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70       --unused
71              Operate on files found by last run of git-annex unused.
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76       --key=keyname
77              Use this option to copy a specified key.
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79       matching options
80              The git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify what to
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83       --batch
84              Enables  batch mode, in which lines containing names of files to
85              copy are read from stdin.
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87              As each specified file is processed, the usual  progress  output
88              is displayed. If a file's content does not need to be copied, or
89              it does not match specified matching options, or it  is  not  an
90              annexed file, a blank line is output in response instead.
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92              Since  the  usual output while copying a file is verbose and not
93              machine-parseable, you may want to  use  --json  in  combination
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97              This is like --batch but the lines read from stdin are parsed as
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100       -z     Makes batch input be delimited by nulls  instead  of  the  usual
101              newlines.
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103       --json Enable  JSON  output.  This is intended to be parsed by programs
104              that use git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.
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107              Include progress objects in JSON output.
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109       --json-error-messages
110              Messages that would normally be output to standard error are in‐
111              cluded in the json instead.
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113       Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.
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SEE ALSO

116       git-annex(1)
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118       git-annex-get(1)
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120       git-annex-move(1)
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122       git-annex-drop(1)
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AUTHOR

125       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
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