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 username="http://edheil.wordpress.com/"
 ip="99.54.57.201"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2013-01-05T00:32:44Z"
 content="""
After I painstakingly killed off the assistant's processes (I didn't see a way to stop it in the web interface, and issuing \"git annex assistant --stop\" did not stop it), and restarted the assistant, it synced successfully, so the error seems to have been transient.
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