git-annex-restage(1)

💖 git-annex-restage — restages unlocked files in the git index 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the git-annex-restage(1) page, straight outta the General Commands Manual ✨

✨ NAME ✨

git-annex-restage — restages unlocked files in the git index 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git annex restage

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so here's the tea, bestie ☕ when you get or drop an unlocked file, it literally modifies the file in the work tree. and git is like "bestie why did this change" 😭 so git needs to be told that this modification does NOT change the content it already recorded (that's the annex pointer, iykyk). restaging the file is what accomplishes that. periodt 💅

lowkey you don't normally need to run this command at all, because usually git-annex can restage unlocked files all by itself. main character energy 🦋. BUT — there are some situations where git-annex needs to restage a file, and the git index is locked, so it just... can't 😭. when that happens it'll show you a warning suggesting you run this command. that's your sign ✨

and the best part? it's totally safe to run this command even after you've made a modification to an unlocked file 💖 no cap.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• git-annex(1)
• git-annex-smudge(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

okay that's the whole vibe check, bestie 🌈

and that's a wrap on git-annex-restage(1) from the General Commands Manual 💅✨ slay, go restage those files, mwah 🎀🦋