[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2016-05-12T19:15:28Z" content=""" I'd recommend not using the assistant with v6 repos yet. v6 is still considered experimental. In v6 mode, the "/annex/objects/" file content means that an unlocked file's content is not locally available yet. I reproduced this, and here's the log for a single file "bar" which was created on clientA:
commit 2806e7c46e1df2bfd35ae22cf399a222957caa83
Author: Joey Hess 
Date:   Thu May 12 15:18:28 2016 -0400

    git-annex in clientB

 bar | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

commit 99160180e14d3920e2b7ce4ded12b86057a8923f
Author: Joey Hess 
Date:   Thu May 12 15:18:24 2016 -0400

    git-annex in clientA

 bar | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
So, it looks like clientB changed it for some reason. -/annex/objects/SHA256E-s30--325229d85342c107421616848843592c2c1335d4d4e429b2805765af07de59be +/annex/objects/SHA256E-s93--7493e6fd3acc936ff943283df9aa82ba3ad5f94e3c3168c2599f4fdf9a8c504d And, 7493e6fd3acc936ff943283df9aa82ba3ad5f94e3c3168c2599f4fdf9a8c504d is the sha256sum of "/annex/objects/SHA256E-s30--325229d85342c107421616848843592c2c1335d4d4e429b2805765af07de59be\n", so it's getting confused and re-adding pointer files, it seems. """]]