git-annex-trust(1)

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✨ git-annex-trust ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section for git-annex-trust — yes that's the whole manual name, we're fancy here 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

git-annex-trust — trust a repository 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

git annex trust [repository ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what this does is: it records that a repository is trusted to not unexpectedly lose content. That's it. That's the whole vibe.

⚠️ Use with care. Like, fr fr. Trust is a big deal, bestie. Don't hand it out like free samples at the mall. 😭

You can point at repositories by their remote name, their description, or their UUID — all three work, pick your fave. And if you wanna trust the current repository, you just say "here". Iconic, honestly. 👑

💀 before you trust anything, consider this scenario 💀

not to be dramatic but this is the whole reason "use with care" exists:

  • Repository A is trusted, repository B is not.
  • Both of them contain the same content.
  • You run git-annex drop on repository A — it checks that B still contains the content, sees that it does, so the drop proceeds. ✅
  • Then you run git-annex drop on repository B — and it trusts A to still contain the content, so that drop succeeds too. ✅
  • Now the content has been lost. 🫠

Not me crying over your data. Please be careful out there. 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --json — turns on JSON output 🔥. This one's meant to be parsed by programs that use git-annex, so it's giving "for the robots, not for your eyeballs". Each line of output is a JSON object. one object per line, no cap.
  • --json-error-messages — the messages that would normally get dumped to standard error instead get included in the JSON. So nothing escapes into the void, it all just chills inside the JSON instead. 🧚

Also, the git-annex-common-options(1) can be used — those are the shared ones, go check them out. 🌈

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

(yes bestie, there's a whole trust spectrum — semitrust, untrust, dead — go read them all, it's giving lore. 📚)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> — the main character who wrote all of this, we stan. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the git-annex-trust(1) manual page, closing out the same way it opened 🎀 — sending you off with all the love, no cap, periodt. go trust responsibly 💜

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