Feature request for a sort of "dedup" for filenames

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+(Hi, this is paulproteus/Asheesh Laroia).
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+I've been enjoying using git-annex to archive my data.
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+It's great that, by using git-annex and the SHA1 backend, I get a space-saving kind of deduplication through the symbolic links.
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+My question is, is there a frontend by which I can look at some files and only store the ones that are not already in the repository? That would help me in terms of personal file organization.
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+It seems there is not, so this is a wishlist bug filed so that maybe such a thing might exist. What I would really like to do is:
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+ $ git annex add --no-add-if-already-present .
+ $ git commit -m "Slurping in some photos I found on my old laptop hard drive"
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+And then I'd do something like:
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+ $ git clean -f
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+to remove the files that didn't get annexed in this run. That way, only one filename would ever point to a particular SHA1.
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+I want this because I have copies of various of mine (photos, in particular) scattered across various hard disks.
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+(I would be even happier for "git annex add --unlink-duplicates .")