git-annex-transferkeys(1)

💖 git-annex-transferkeys(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for git-annex-transferkeys ✨ this one's a little vintage, but she still eats 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

git-annex-transferkeys — transfers keys (deprecated) 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

git annex transferkeys

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this is a plumbing-level command, which basically means it's the behind-the-scenes machinery, not the main character energy you'd normally be tapping into 🙈

the tea is: this command was used to transfer data by the assistant in git-annex version 8.20201127 and older. that's right, older — she's a legacy girlie now 👑

and the reason she's still hanging around in the codebase at all? literally just to prevent breakage during upgrades. she's not here to serve looks, she's here to keep your upgrades from falling apart 😭 iconic of her honestly.

heads up bestie: it's a long-running process. it gets fed instructions about the keys to transfer through an internal stdio protocol — and that protocol is intentionally not documented, because it may change at any time. so don't go building anything on top of it, fr fr 💀

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• git-annex(1)

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> 💜

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and that's the whole page bestie, no notes 🍓 this was git-annex-transferkeys(1) from the git-annex manual, and yes she's deprecated but she's still slaying in the background so your upgrades go smooth ✨ periodt 💅