NAME
git-annex whereis - lists repositories that have file content
SYNOPSIS
git annex whereis [path ...]
DESCRIPTION
Displays information about where the contents of files are located.
For example:
# git annex whereis
whereis my_cool_big_file (1 copy)
0c443de8-e644-11df-acbf-f7cd7ca6210d -- laptop
whereis other_file (3 copies)
0c443de8-e644-11df-acbf-f7cd7ca6210d -- laptop
62b39bbe-4149-11e0-af01-bb89245a1e61 -- usb drive [here]
7570b02e-15e9-11e0-adf0-9f3f94cb2eaa -- backup drive
Note that this command does not contact remotes to verify if they still have the content of files. It only reports on the last information that was received from remotes.
OPTIONS
file matching options
The git-annex-matching-options(1) can be used to specify files to act on.
--key=keyname
Show where a particular git-annex key is located.
--all
-A
Show whereis information for all known keys.
--branch=ref
Show whereis information for files in the specified branch or treeish.
--unused
Show whereis information for files found by last run of git-annex unused.
--batch
Enables batch mode, in which a file is read in a line from stdin, its information displayed, and repeat.
Note that if the file is not an annexed file, or does not match specified file matching options, an empty line will be output instead.
-z
Makes the
--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-error-messages
Messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in the json instead.
SEE ALSO
git-annex(1)
AUTHOR
Joey Hess id@joeyh.name
Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care.
I've added a para above. Note that this is a wiki, and you can edit it too!
Showing the timestamp of when the file was added to the remote could be done; git-annex does not track the last time it verified content was on a remote and tracking that would bloat the git-annex branch. I don't think displaying a very old timestamp for data at rest would give the right impression though.