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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-06-23 09:56:04 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-06-23 09:56:04 -0400
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parent9672496a9357c84a4436ead109ba2dc7bc010e8c (diff)
update re git-annex branch direct modification
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@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@ deleting or changing the file contents.
This branch is managed by git-annex, with the contents listed below.
-Note that it assumes only it will modify the branch. If you go in and make
-changes, be sure to remove `.git/index.git-annex` before running git-annex,
-otherwise it will probably revert your changes in its next commit to the branch.
+Note that git-annex assumes only it will modify this branch. If you go in
+and make changes directly, it will probably revert your changes in its next
+commit to the branch.
+
+The best way to make changes to the git-annex branch is instead
+to create a branch of it, with a name like "my/git-annex", and then
+use "git annex merge" to automerge your branch into the main git-annex
+branch.
### `uuid.log`