git-annex-reinit(1)

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💖 git-annex-reinit 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the git-annex-reinit(1) page, straight out of the General Commands Manual 🎀 this is the one where we give a repo its old identity back, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

git-annex-reinit — initialize repository, reusing old UUID 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git annex reinit uuid|description

like, that's the whole vibe. you hand it a uuid or a description and it does the thing 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea ☕ normally when you initialize a repo, git-annex makes it a brand new unique identifier (UUID), like a little birth certificate for that repo. cute, right? 🍼

but occasionally it's actually useful to reuse a UUID — for example, if a repository got deleted and you're setting it back up. it's giving "hey remember me? it's me again" 😭✨

⚠️ use this with caution, bestie!! it can get confusing to have two existing repositories with the same UUID. two girlies, one name, one UUID... it's a mess fr fr 💀

also, pls pls pls make sure you run git annex fsck after changing the UUID of a repository, so that location tracking information gets recorded correctly. do not skip this step, i am literally begging 🙏

and like git annex init, this attempts to enable any special remotes that are configured with autoenable=true. so the autoenable girlies get switched on automatically 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --json — turns on JSON output 💻 this one is intended to be parsed by programs that use git-annex, so it's for the robot besties, not for reading with your eyeballs.
  • --json-error-messages — messages that would normally be output to standard error get included in the JSON instead. no more sad stderr screen, everything goes in the JSON box 📦✨

also, the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used. go wild 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

(the fsck one is there for a REASON, see above, iykyk 👀)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> 💖 absolute legend, main character energy, we stan.

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was the git-annex-reinit(1) man page from the General Commands Manual — same facts, way more sparkle. now go reinit responsibly and remember to fsck afterward 🌸💅🦋

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