---
name: "git-annex-push"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "git-annex"
version: "10.20261026-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/git-annex-push"
---

# git-annex-push(1)

push content to remotes

## NAME

git-annex-push - push content to remotes

## SYNOPSIS

git annex push **\[remote ...\]**

## DESCRIPTION

This command pushes content to remotes. It uploads  both git repository content, and the content of annexed files.

You can use **git push** and **git-annex copy** by hand to do the same thing as this command, but this command handles several details, including making sure that the git-annex branch is pushed to the remote.

When using git-annex, often remotes are not bare repositories, because it's helpful to add remotes for nearby machines that you want to access the same annexed content. Pushing to a non-bare remote will not normally update the remote's current branch with changes from the local repository. (Unless the remote is configured with receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead.) Instead, when it detects such a remote, this command pushes to the remote's **synced/master** (and similar with other branches). When **git-annex pull** (or git-annex sync**) is later run on the remote, it will merge the** synced/ branches that were pushed to it.

Some special remotes allow exporting a tree of files to them (**exporttree=yes**), and this command can be used to push to those remotes as well as regular git remotes. See [git-annex-export(1)](/git-annex-export/1.md) for details about how those special remotes work. In order for this command to export to a special remote, **remote.\<name\>.annex-tracking-branch** also must be configured, and have the same value as the currently checked out branch.

When [git-annex-adjust(1)](/git-annex-adjust/1.md) has been used to check out an adjusted branch, this command will propagate changes that have been made back to the  parent branch, without propagating the adjustments.

Normally this tries to upload the content of each annexed file that is in the working tree, to any remote that it's pushing to that does not have a copy. To control which files are uploaded to a remote, configure the preferred content of the remote. When a file is not the preferred content of a remote, this command will try to drop the file's content from it. See [git-annex-preferred-content(1)](/git-annex-preferred-content/1.md).

## OPTIONS

- **\[remote\]**

  -

  By default, this command pushes to all available remotes, except for remotes  that have **remote.\<name\>.annex-push** (or **remote.\<name\>.annex-sync**)  set to false or **remote.\<name\>.annex-readonly** set to true.

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  By specifying the names of remotes (or remote groups), you can control which ones to push to.

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  - **--fast**

  Only push to the remotes with the lowest annex-cost value configured.

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  When a list of remotes (or remote groups) is provided, it picks from amoung those, otherwise it picks from amoung all remotes.

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  - **--only-annex** **-a**, **--not-only-annex**

  Only push the git-annex branch and annexed content to remotes, not other git branches.

-

  The **annex.synconlyannex** configuration can be set to true to make this be the default behavior. To override such a setting, use **--not-only-annex**.

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  When this is combined with --no-content, only the git-annex branch will be pushed.

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  - **--no-content**, **-g**, **--content**

  Use **--no-content** or **-g** to avoid uploading (and dropping) the content of annexed files.

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  If you often use **--no-content**, you can set the **annex.synccontent** configuration to false to prevent uploading content by default. The **--content** option overrides that configuration.

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  - **--content-of=path** **-C path**

  Only upload (or drop) annexed files in the given path.

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  This option can be repeated multiple times with different paths.

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  Note that this option does not prevent exporting other files to an  "exporttree=yes" remote.

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  - **--all** **-A**

  Usually this command operates on annexed files in the current branch. This option makes it operate on all available versions of all annexed files (when preferred content settings allow).

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  Note that preferred content settings that use **include=** or **exclude=** will only match the version of files currently in the work tree, but not past versions of files.

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  - **--jobs=N** **-JN**

  Enables parallel pushing with up to the specified number of jobs running at once. For example: **-J10**

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  Setting this to "cpus" will run one job per CPU core.

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  - **--cleanup**

  Removes the local and remote **synced/** branches, which were created and pushed by **git-annex push** or **git-annex sync**. This option prevents all other activities.

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  - Also the [git-annex-common-options(1)](/git-annex-common-options/1.md) can be used.

  ## SEE ALSO

[git-annex(1)](/git-annex/1.md)

[git-annex-pull(1)](/git-annex-pull/1.md)

[git-annex-sync(1)](/git-annex-sync/1.md)

[git-annex-preferred-content(1)](/git-annex-preferred-content/1.md)

[git-annex-satisfy(1)](/git-annex-satisfy/1.md)

## AUTHOR

Joey Hess \<id@joeyh.name\>