--all
would make git-annex operate on either every key with content
present (or in some cases like get
and copy --from
on
every keys with content not present).
This would be useful when a repository has a history with deleted files
whose content you want to keep (so you're not using dropunused
).
Or when you have a lot of branches and just want to be able to fsck
every file referenced in any branch. It could also be useful (or even a
good default) in a bare repository.
A problem with the idea is that .gitattributes
values for keys not
currently in the tree would not be available (without horrific anounts of
grubbing thru history to find where/when the key used to exist). So
numcopies
set via .gitattributes
would not work. This would be a
particular problem for drop
and for --auto
.
--Joey