[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmUJBh1lYmvfCCiGr3yrdx-QhuLCSRnU5c" nickname="Justin" subject="comment 2" date="2013-05-13T17:53:06Z" content=""" Be that as it may, the whole reason git-annex exists is to work around fundamental limitations of git! The issue is that I don't want to treat a folder which I happen to have applied version control to differently than a folder which happens not to be version controlled (aside from committing to the version-controlled folder, of course!). Both folders are in my git annex; I shouldn't have to worry about it. (My whole \"documents\" folder is in git annex, and it contains many small git repositories.) I guess I could write a script to unbundle and re-bundle on command. In fact, one could imagine integrating these scripts into git annex somehow. Is that something you'd consider taking upstream? """]]