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+Over a month ago, I had some reports that syncing into adjusted branches
+was losing some files that had been committed. I couldn't reproduce it, but
+IIRC both felix and tbm reported problems in this area. And, felix kindly
+sent me enough of his git repo to hopefully reproduce it the problem.
+
+Finally got back to that today. Luckily, I *was* able to reproduce the bug
+using felix's repo. The bug only occurs when there's a change deep in a
+tree of an adjusted branch, and not always then. After staring at it for a
+couple of hours, I finally found the problem; a modification flag was not
+getting propigated in this case, and some changes made deep in the tree
+were not getting included into parent trees.
+
+So, I think I've fixed it, but need to look at it some more to be sure, and
+develop a test case. And fixing that exposed another bug in the same code.
+Gotta run unfortunately, so will finish this tomorrow..
+
+Today's work was sponsored by Riku Voipio.