git-annex-mincopies(1)

💖 git-annex-mincopies — configure minimum number of copies 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the page for git-annex-mincopies, straight outta the git-annex General Commands Manual ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git annex mincopies N

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so basically this tells git-annex how many copies of your files it is required to preserve, counted over all repositories. the default is 1. that's it, that's the vibe 💅

Run it with no number at all and it'll just hand you the current value. lowkey the easiest way to check yourself before you wreck yourself 🫶

This config lives in the git-annex branch, which means every single clone of the repository is gonna see it. no secrets here, it's giving transparency. BUT — you can override it on a per-file basis with the annex.mincopies setting in .gitattributes files, or you can override it temporarily with the --mincopies option. flexible queen behavior fr fr ✨

Now, this supplements the git-annex-numcopies(1) setting, it doesn't replace it. here's the tea: in unusual situations — and we mean situations involving special remotes that do not support locking, plus concurrent drops of the same content from multiple repositories — git-annex may violate the numcopies setting. yeah. it can happen. 😭 In those unusual situations though, git-annex makes sure the number of copies never goes below mincopies. so it's like a floor, a safety net, a little seatbelt 🎀

⚠️ real talk: it is a good idea to not rely only on setting mincopies. Set numcopies as well, and set it to a larger number, and keep mincopies at the bare minimum you're comfortable with. why? because setting mincopies to a large number instead of setting numcopies will, in some cases, prevent dropping content in entirely safe situations. and bestie, nobody wants that 💀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used. that's the whole list. slay 🦋

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• git-annex(1)
• git-annex-numcopies(1)
• git-annex-config(1)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

• Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> — icon, legend, ate and left no crumbs 👑

that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this was git-annex-mincopies(1) from the git-annex General Commands Manual — go forth, set your minimums, protect your copies, and stay iconic 🌸✨💖