[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2015-05-05T17:11:38Z" content=""" Thanks for a great bug report! Unfortunately, this turns out to be a bug in wget, as shown by this transcript: joey@darkstar:~/tmp/y>ls README@ joey@darkstar:~/tmp/y>wget -q --show-progress --clobber -c -O .git/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s1495--8822780b87a880ca9956ac108812557044618859cecb07df488df57e8134e34f ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/mirrors/debian/README --user-agent git-annex/5.20150505-gcdb212f joey@darkstar:~/tmp/y>ls joey@darkstar:~/tmp/y> I have filed a bug report on wget , and I guess I'll try to work around it in git-annex by running wget inside an empty temp directory. """]]