there are now at least 3 ways to do this; explain and close

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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Revert_to_old_file_version_in_direct_mode___40__VFAT__41__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Revert_to_old_file_version_in_direct_mode___40__VFAT__41__.mdwn
index 38eb9e28c..4a3b1199b 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/Revert_to_old_file_version_in_direct_mode___40__VFAT__41__.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/Revert_to_old_file_version_in_direct_mode___40__VFAT__41__.mdwn
@@ -24,4 +24,6 @@ Linux 3.14.3
 
 > VFAT is a crippled file system. I am not going to reimplenent all of git
 > to support it. The suggested method won't work; git-annex would need
-> to add a git-annex revert, etc, etc, etc ad infinitum. [[wontfix|done]] --[[Joey]]
+> to add a git-annex revert, etc, etc, etc ad infinitum
+>
+> Instead, see the `git annex proxy` command. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn b/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn
index 00f500d10..c8c2dd83e 100644
--- a/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/A_Way_To_Extract_Previous_Versions_of_a_File_From_a_Direct_Repo.mdwn
@@ -1 +1,25 @@
 One problem I keep having when using a direct repo is that in order to get to the previous versions of a file you have to convert that repo to indirect and then checkout previous commits this becomes problematic when the repo in question is large conversion takes a long time and applications gets confused if there are open files from the repo as they go from actual files to symlinks. Is it possible to have a separate annex command that will checkout a previous version of a file to a different directory so we can replace/inspect it.
+
+> I recently added a `git annex proxy` command, which can be used
+> to amoung other things, rewind a direct mode repo to have some old
+> version checked out.
+>
+> For example, you can do: `git annex proxy git checkout old-version`
+> And then the old version of all annexed files will be checked out.
+> 
+> If the old version of a file is not available, it'll be a broken
+> symlink and you can then use `git annex get` etc to get the content from
+> some remote. 
+> 
+> Once you have the old version of the file, you can
+> make a copy, and then switch back to the present with `git annex proxy
+> git checkout annex/direct/master`. Then you can add the copy of the old
+> version of the file to the repo, or whatever.
+> 
+> Or, sometimes more simply, you can `git annex proxy git revert $commit`
+> to revert a commit that made an unwanted change to a file.
+> 
+> Or, simpler still, `git annex undo $file` will undo the last change
+> that git-annex committed to that file, bringing back the old version.
+> 
+> So, this seems [[done]]! --[[Joey]]