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diff --git a/doc/how_it_works.mdwn b/doc/how_it_works.mdwn index 0acf20565..d91af8309 100644 --- a/doc/how_it_works.mdwn +++ b/doc/how_it_works.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ names of the files and some other metadata remain there. The contents of the files are kept by git-annex in a distributed key/value store consisting of every clone of a given git repository. That's a fancy way to say that git-annex stores the actual file content somewhere under -`.git/annex/`. (See [[internals]] for details.) +`.git/annex/`. (See [[internals]] for details and note that in +[[direct_mode]] the file contents are left in the work tree.) That was the values; what about the keys? Well, a key is calculated for a given file when it's first added into git-annex. Normally this uses a hash |