git-annex-import(1)

NAME

   git-annex-import - move and add files from outside git working copy

SYNOPSIS

   git annex import [path ...]

DESCRIPTION

   Moves  files from somewhere outside the git working copy, and adds them
   to the annex. Individual files  to  import  can  be  specified.   If  a
   directory is specified, the entire directory is imported.

    git annex import /media/camera/DCIM/*

   When importing files, there's a possibility of importing a duplicate of
   a file that is already known to git-annex  --  its  content  is  either
   present  in the local repository already, or git-annex knows of another
   repository that contains it, or it was present in the annex before  but
   has been removed now.

   By  default, importing a duplicate of a known file will result in a new
   filename being added to  the  repository,  so  the  duplicate  file  is
   present  in  the  repository  twice.  (With  all checksumming backends,
   including the default SHA256E, only  one  copy  of  the  data  will  be
   stored.)

   Several options can be used to adjust handling of duplicate files.

OPTIONS

   --duplicate

          Do not delete files from the import location.

          This   could  allow  importing  the  same  files  repeatedly  to
          different locations in a repository. More likely,  it  could  be
          used  to import the same files to a number of different branches
          or separate git repositories.

   --deduplicate
          Only import files that are not duplicates; duplicate files  will
          be deleted from the import location.

   --skip-duplicates
          Only  import  files  that are not duplicates; and avoid deleting
          duplicate files from the import location.

   --clean-duplicates
          Does not import any files, but any files  found  in  the  import
          location that are duplicates are deleted.

   --force
          Allow existing files to be overwritten by newly imported files.

          Also, causes .gitignore to not take effect when adding files.

   file matching options
          Many of the git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify
          files to import.

               git annex import /dir --include='*.png'

   --jobs=N -JN
          Imports multiple files in parallel. This  may  be  faster.   For
          example: -J4

   --json Enable  JSON  output.  This is intended to be parsed by programs
          that use git-annex. Each line of output is a JSON object.

CAVEATS

   Note that using  --deduplicate  or  --clean-duplicates  with  the  WORM
   backend does not look at file content, but filename and mtime.

   If annex.largefiles is configured, and does not match a file, git annex
   import will add the non-large file  directly  to  the  git  repository,
   instead of to the annex.

SEE ALSO

   git-annex(1)

   git-annex-add(1)

AUTHOR

   Joey Hess <[email protected]>

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