[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" nickname="joey" subject="comment 11" date="2013-06-12T17:03:07Z" content=""" There's an annex.delayadd git config setting you can use that makes it wait a specified number of seconds before committing. So it would indeed be a workaround to set: `git config annex.delayadd 2` However, I'm pretty confident I can entirely avoid this problem, safely. """]]