NAME

       git-annex-matching-expression - specifying a set of files

DESCRIPTION

       The  annex.largefiles  and annex.addunlocked configurations both use expressions that match some files in
       the working tree.

SYNTAX

       The format of these expressions is similar to git-annex-preferred-content(1) expressions.

       For example:

        largerthan=100kb and not (include=*.c or include=*.h)

       This matches large files, but excludes C source files.

       The following terms can be used:

       include=glob / exclude=glob
              Specify files to include or exclude.

              The glob can contain * and ? to match arbitrary characters.

              Note that this matches on the whole filename, relative to  the  top  of  the  git  directory.  So,
              include=foo  will  include  a  file  foo  in  the  top,  but  not subdir/foo. To include both, use
              include=foo or include=*/foo

       smallerthan=size / largerthan=size
              Matches only files smaller than, or larger than the specified size.

              The size can be specified with any commonly used units, for example, "0.5 gb" or "100 KiloBytes"

       mimetype=glob
              Looks up the MIME type of a file, and checks if the glob matches it.

              For example, "mimetype=text/*" will match many varieties of text  files,  including  "text/plain",
              but also "text/x-shellscript", "text/x-makefile", etc.

              The MIME types are the same that are displayed by running file --mime-type

              This is only available to use when git-annex was built with the MagicMime build flag.

       mimeencoding=glob
              Looks up the MIME encoding of a file, and checks if the glob matches it.

              For example, "mimeencoding=binary" will match many kinds of binary files.

              The MIME encodings are the same that are displayed by running file --mime-encoding

              This is only available to use when git-annex was built with the MagicMime build flag.

       anything
              Matches any file.

       nothing
              Matches no files. (Same as "not anything")

       not expression
              Inverts what the expression matches.

       and / or / ( expression )
              These can be used to build up more complicated expressions.

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

       <http://git-annex.branchable.com/>

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