git-annex-groupwanted(1)

omg hii bestie 💖 welcome to git-annex-groupwanted(1), straight outta the General Commands Manual ✨ this one is lowkey iconic: it gets or sets the groupwanted expression, and it's giving "group chat rules but for annex repos" 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

git-annex-groupwanted — get or set groupwanted expression 🎀

🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

git annex groupwanted groupname [expression]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Sets or displays the groupwanted expression. This will be used by repositories that are in the group, and that have their preferred content expression set to "groupwanted". periodt 💅

For example, to configure a group named redundantarchive, and make repositories in the group want to contain 3 copies of every file, you'd do this exact vibe:

git annex groupwanted redundantarchive "not
(copies=redundantarchive:3)"
for repo in foo bar baz; do
     git annex group $repo redundantarchive
     git annex wanted $repo groupwanted
done

okay so important bestie: there must be exactly one groupwanted expression configured among all the groups that a repository is in; if there's more than one, none of them will be used 😭 yes, zero, not one, fr fr.

To clear a groupwanted expression, use an empty value for the expression, eg:

git-annex groupwanted foo ""

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

The git-annex-common-options(1) can be used. that's the whole options moment, no cap ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• git-annex(1)
• git-annex-group(1)
• git-annex-wanted(1)
• git-annex-preferred-content(1)

go read these besties, iykyk 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote this one, slay 💖

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xoxo bestie, from the git-annex-groupwanted(1) page in the General Commands Manual 💅✨🫶