[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://edheil.wordpress.com/" ip="99.54.57.201" subject="comment 4" date="2013-03-03T18:58:42Z" content=""" Just to see what happened, I re-added that same file in another directory manually (not with the assistant). git annex whereis instantly showed that it was in all the other repositories. I finally thought to try a \"git status\" -- it showed that with for the original copy of this I added, the actual symlink was never checked into git. annex$ git status # On branch master # Untracked files: # (use \"git add ...\" to include in what will be committed) # # Movies/Music/Tanlines - All Of Me.flv nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use \"git add\" to track) annex$ This is probably all unrelated to the original topic of the bug -- I am not seeing the \"client repo starts pulling in archive content, dropping it from backup remote\" issue anymore. """]]