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 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.246"
 subject="comment 3"
 date="2013-11-15T17:48:42Z"
 content="""
Hmm. In your script, when you run `git annex sync` in a and then `echo aaaa > f`, f already exists at that point as a symlink. This actually ends up following the link and writing to .git/annex/objects. (fsck will detect that junk has been written there)

That's a bug on its own; seems like direct mode is neglecting to lock down the .git/annex/objects directories to prevent writing to them like this.

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However, this means that your script does not demonstrate the bug you originally reported. 
You remove b/f and sync, and since a/f has not been changed, the deleting is correctly synced to a, removing a/f.
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