git-annex-matching-expression - Man Page

The annex.largefiles and annex.addunlocked configurations both use expressions that match some files in the working tree.

The format of these expressions is similar to git-annex-preferred-content(1) expressions.

For example:

largerthan=100kb and not (include=*.c or include=*.h)

This matches large files, but excludes C source files.

The following terms can be used:

include=glob / exclude=glob

Specify files to include or exclude.

The glob can contain * and ? to match arbitrary characters.

Note that this matches on the whole filename, relative to the top  of the git directory. So, include=foo will include a file foo in the top, but not subdir/foo. To include both, use  include=foo or include=*/foo

smallerthan=size / largerthan=size

Matches only files smaller than, or larger than the specified size.

The size can be specified with any commonly used units, for example, "0.5 gb" or "100 KiloBytes"

mimetype=glob

Looks up the MIME type of a file, and checks if the glob matches it.

For example, "mimetype=text/*" will match many varieties of text files, including "text/plain", but also "text/x-shellscript", "text/x-makefile", etc.

The MIME types are the same that are displayed by running file --mime-type

This is only available to use when git-annex was built with the MagicMime build flag.

mimeencoding=glob

Looks up the MIME encoding of a file, and checks if the glob matches it.

For example, "mimeencoding=binary" will match many kinds of binary files.

The MIME encodings are the same that are displayed by running file --mime-encoding

This is only available to use when git-annex was built with the MagicMime build flag.

anything

Matches any file.

nothing

Matches no files. (Same as "not anything")

not expression

Inverts what the expression matches.

and / or / ( expression )

These can be used to build up more complicated expressions.

git-annex(1)

Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>

<http://git-annex.branchable.com/>

git-annex(1), git-annex-config(1), git-annex-matchexpression(1).