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add note on clean datasets

Elena Piscopia 4 years ago
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@@ -30,3 +30,10 @@ files will be retrieved prior to the command execution. Any content that is modi
 produced by the command should be specified with an -o/--output flag. Upon a run or rerun
 produced by the command should be specified with an -o/--output flag. Upon a run or rerun
 of the command, the contents of these files will get unlocked so that they can be modified.
 of the command, the contents of these files will get unlocked so that they can be modified.
 
 
+Important! If the dataset is not "clean" (a datalad status output is empty),
+datalad run will not work - you will have to save modifications present in your
+dataset.
+A suboptimal alternative is the --explicit flag,
+used to record only those changes done
+to the files listed with --output flags.
+