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

CAVEATS

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

SEE ALSO

       git-annex(1)

       git-annex-add(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

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