NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Copies the content of files from or to another remote.

       With  no  parameters,  operates  on  all annexed files in the current directory.  Paths of
       files or directories to operate on can be specified.

OPTIONS

       --from=remote

              Copy the content of files from the specified remote to the local repository.

              Any files that are not available on the remote will be silently skipped.

       --to=remote
              Copy the content of files from the local repository to the specified remote.

       --to=here
              Copy the content of files from all reachable remotes to the local repository.

       --from=remote1 --to=remote2
              Copy the content of files that are in remote1 to remote2.

              This is implemented by first downloading the content  from  remote1  to  the  local
              repository  (if not already present), then sending it to remote2, and then deleting
              the content from the local repository (if it was not present to start with).

       --jobs=N -JN
              Enables parallel transfers with up to the specified number of jobs running at once.
              For example: -J10

              Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.

              Note  that  when  using  --from  with  --to, twice this many jobs will run at once,
              evenly split between the two remotes.

       --auto Rather than copying all specified files, only copy those that don't  yet  have  the
              desired  number  of  copies,  or  that  are  preferred  content  of the destination
              repository. See git-annex-preferred-content(1)

       --fast When copying content to a remote, avoid a round trip to check if the remote already
              has  content.  This  can be faster, but might skip copying content to the remote in
              some cases.

       --all -A
              Rather than specifying a filename or path to copy, this option can be used to  copy
              all available versions of all files.

              This is the default behavior when running git-annex in a bare repository.

       --branch=ref
              Operate on files in the specified branch or treeish.

       --unused
              Operate on files found by last run of git-annex unused.

       --failed
              Operate on files that have recently failed to be transferred.

       --key=keyname
              Use this option to copy a specified key.

       matching options
              The git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify what to copy.

       --batch
              Enables  batch mode, in which lines containing names of files to copy are read from
              stdin.

              As each specified file is processed, the usual progress output is displayed.  If  a
              file's  content does not need to be copied, or it does not match specified matching
              options, or it is not an annexed file, a blank line is output in response instead.

              Since the usual output while copying a file is verbose and  not  machine-parseable,
              you may want to use --json in combination with --batch.

       --batch-keys
              This is like --batch but the lines read from stdin are parsed as keys.

       -z     Makes batch input be delimited by nulls instead of the usual newlines.

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

       --json-progress
              Include progress objects in JSON output.

       --json-error-messages
              Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in  the  JSON
              instead.

       Also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used.

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-annex-get(1)

       git-annex-move(1)

       git-annex-drop(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

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