todo/using file metadata for preferred (wanted) contentgit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/using_file_metadata_for_preferred___40__wanted__41___content/git-annexikiwiki2020-06-17T01:18:32Zwanted content commandshttp://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/using_file_metadata_for_preferred___40__wanted__41___content/comment_1_8c377382b772e4c2d0c1f981010b8d91/jason.dixon.email2020-06-17T01:18:32Z2019-10-10T08:16:59Z
<p>I've often thought it would be handy to have a preferred content expression and a requested files list that work together. Which is, I think, similar to what you're saying?</p>
<p>So you could do something like "git annex wanted . --request " which would add it to a list of wanted files, that overrides the preferred content. Then you'd remove them also.</p>
<p>Use case for this would be requesting a file. Syncing the request to, say, a usb. Plugging that usb in somewhere else later, and having those files be automatically transferred. Then when the file reaches the destination it's dropped.</p>
<p>I guess this is possible already with the wanted expressions? What would that look like?</p>