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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.64"
+ subject="comment 7"
+ date="2013-11-22T16:50:31Z"
+ content="""
+I appreciate the investigation.
+
+Now that there's a direct mode guard, it would be possible to have git-annex translate .git directories to some other name when adding files to git. This seems more likely than getting git changed.
+
+However, I am not convinced *at all* that it makes any sense to try to sync git repositories in this way. I realize that some people drop git checkouts into dropbox and use that, but it's a fundamentally unsound thing to do, and those people are just lucky if they manage to avoid running into problems doing that.
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+If you have two clones of a repo, and a git repository is checked into both, and they become partitioned for a while and larger re-merge, then there can be conflicts in the files that make up the git repository. Which git-annex would auto-resolve, with the effect that the checked-in git repository would appear to be broken.
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+Also, this feature would only be used by a small number of users, on the border between people who can use git the Correct Way, and people who don't use git other than with the assistant.
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+It would make sense to make git-annex refuse to add files inside nested git repositories though.
+"""]]