It would be helpful to have a way to query things like a repository's description and trust level, without having to poke in the git-annex branch. For example, "git annex describe ." currently clears the description but could print the current one instead.

git annex status now breaks down the repository list by type. done --Joey

git annex describe only sets the description to avoid complication. Imagine using it in a script for example.

git annex status shows the description. It does not show the trust level because I have not thought of a visually pleasing and compact way to show it in the repository list there.. suggestions appreciated, since the same list is used by whereis, and showing trust levels there would be particularly useful.

Comment by http://joey.kitenet.net/ Thu Oct 27 17:09:33 2011

Possible solutions:

This:

trusted repositories:
        UUID -- foo
semi-trusted repositories:
        UUID -- bar
untrusted repositories:
        UUID -- baz

or this:

        UUID -- trusted      -- foo
        UUID -- semi-trusted -- bar
        UUID -- untrusted    -- baz

or this:

known repositories (!/*/X):
        UUID -- ! foo
        UUID -- * bar
        UUID -- X baz

If you want to reformat this output, putting 'here', 'origin', etc into fixed formatting might make sense, as well. -- Richard

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