git-annex-dead(1)

✨ git-annex-dead ✨

from the General Commands Manual bestie 💖 it's git-annex-dead(1) and it's here to help you grieve 💀

🌸 NAME 🌸

git-annex-dead — hide a lost repository or key 🪦

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

git annex dead [repository ...] [--key somekey ...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so listen. sometimes data is just... gone. like gone gone. and you already know it's gone, and honestly? you've accepted it. the problem is your repo hasn't accepted it, and it keeps bringing it up. this command exists to deal with exactly that — situations where data has been lost, and you know it has, and you want to stop being reminded of that fact. no more ghost notifications bestie, we're moving on 🫶

when you specify a repository, you're basically saying "this repo is irretrievably lost, forever, rip 🪦" — so it will not be listed in eg, git annex whereis. you can point at repositories using their remote name, their description, or their UUID. (and if you change your mind and wanna undo it? use git-annex semitrust.) ✨

when you specify a key, you're saying the content of that key has been irretrievably lost. this makes the key get skipped when operating on all keys with eg --all. (to undo that one, add the key's content back to the repository, by using eg, git-annex reinject.) 💖

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• --key=somekey — use this to specify a key that is dead 💀 like, officially dead, on the record, no takebacks.
• --json — enable JSON output. this is intended to be parsed by programs that use git-annex. each line of output is a JSON object. 🤖 (iykyk)
• --json-error-messages — messages that would normally be output to standard error are included in the JSON instead. so like, the sad stuff gets packed into the JSON too 🙈

also the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used. you're welcome bestie 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• git-annex(1)
• git-annex-trust(1)
• git-annex-semitrust(1)
• git-annex-untrust(1)
• git-annex-renameremote(1)
• git-annex-expire(1)
• git-annex-fsck(1)
• git-annex-reinject(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> — the icon, the legend, the main character of git-annex 🌈

okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 this was git-annex-dead(1) from the General Commands Manual, and the footer said the same thing one more time for the people in the back — git-annex-dead(1). periodt. 💜🧚