[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="2001:4978:f:21a::2"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2012-10-28T17:13:32Z"
 content="""
You can avoid this by not using a deduplicating backend; for example you can use the WORM backend.

However, the foot shooting actually occurs due to using drop --force, which is explicitly asking git-annex to be unsafe. If you want to be safe, simply don't use --force. If you want to safely delete a file, simply `git rm` it, and then `git annex unused` will come along and find content that can safely be removed.
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