[[!comment format=mdwn username="spwhitton" subject="comment 9" date="2016-08-09T20:17:47Z" content=""" I'm the git-remote-gcrypt maintainer, but as it stands it's not really possible to do anything about this bug without steps to reliably reproduce the corrupted/unencrypted remote repository. I have been using git-remote-gcrypt with git-annex and with plain git repos for more than two years and I have never encountered anything like this issue. So there's no starting point to work on a fix for the issue. """]]