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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+I wanted to inspect the state of an object present in a bare remote
+without touching the working copy. So I issued «transferkey $KEY --from
+bare-remote»; however, even for keys that are definitely present on
+the remote, this would fail with «requested key is not present».
+
+The same method, when using a non-bare repo in «--from», would succeed
+under otherwise identical conditions.
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+Cf. above.
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+git-annex 5.20140708
+
+Linux 3.15.4