forum/Use case for addurlgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Use_case_for_addurl/git-annexikiwiki2015-11-10T19:03:25Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/Use_case_for_addurl/comment_1_2205b1857158cca4f6e2225c53bec1d5/joey2015-11-10T19:03:25Z2015-11-10T18:59:13Z
<p>The use case is to be able to <code>git annex addurl</code> in one repository
and <code>git annex get</code> in another checkout, without needing to remember
the url yourself. Or to use <code>git annex whereis</code> to look up the url
associated with a file.</p>
<p>When --relaxed is used, you're telling git-annex you want to treat
the current and future content of the url as close enough to the same
as to not matter. I wouldn't use it if I expected the content of an url to
change significantly, and git-annex is not able to help with manageing such
differences.</p>