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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="CandyAngel"
+ subject="comment 3"
+ date="2015-04-29T18:42:38Z"
+ content="""
+Well, yeah, it is quite surprising as you don't like git-annex messing about with files outside the annex, but one of the commands that does so will cause wanton destruction with barely any checks against data loss.
+
+Oddly, if the origin is marked as dead instead of untrusted, --clean-duplicates doesn't remove anything from /tmp/ga-icd/importme, even though 'import' still knows about the files and has enough information to delete them. Weird.
+
+    + mkdir /tmp/ga-icd
+    + cd /tmp/ga-icd
+    + git init origin
+    Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/ga-icd/origin/.git/
+    + cd origin
+    + git commit -m create --allow-empty
+    [master (root-commit) 6cfdbc1] create
+    + git annex init origin
+    init origin ok
+    (recording state in git...)
+    + echo a
+    + echo b
+    + git annex add .
+    add a ok
+    add b ok
+    (recording state in git...)
+    + git commit -m files
+    [master 2c2ed64] files
+     2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
+     create mode 120000 a
+     create mode 120000 b
+    + mkdir /tmp/ga-icd/importme
+    + cd /tmp/ga-icd/importme
+    + echo a
+    + echo b
+    + echo c
+    + cd /tmp/ga-icd
+    + git clone origin import
+    Cloning into 'import'...
+    done.
+    + cd import
+    + git annex init import
+    init import (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
+    ok
+    (recording state in git...)
+    + cd /tmp/ga-icd/origin
+    + git annex drop b --force
+    drop b ok
+    (recording state in git...)
+    + cd /tmp/ga-icd/import
+    + git annex dead origin
+    dead origin ok
+    (recording state in git...)
+    + git annex import --clean-duplicates /tmp/ga-icd/importme
+    + ls /tmp/ga-icd/import
+    a  b
+    + ls /tmp/ga-icd/importme/
+    a  b  c
+
+I'm think I'm just going to steer clear of it completely (and roll my own) until it is as fussy about preserving data as the rest of git-annex.
+
+(Also, apologies for the original name, I didn't realise it would cause any problems.)
+"""]]