[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmBUR4O9mofxVbpb8JV9mEbVfIYv670uJo" nickname="Justin" subject="comment 7" date="2012-07-10T12:37:43Z" content=""" But how was the goldnerlab:data repository created? That looks to be where the problem is.. I have a slightly older version, but in general it should work the same.. you can see right away, when I do git annex status it shows \"known annex keys: 1\". if you do git annex status on goldnerlab, does it say you have any annex keys? $ git-annex version git-annex version: 3.20120614~bpo60+1 $ mkdir a $ cd a $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/a/.git/ $ git annex init a init a ok (Recording state in git...) $ echo hi > file $ git annex add file add file (checksum...) ok (Recording state in git...) $ git commit -m added fatal: No HEAD commit to compare with (yet) fatal: No HEAD commit to compare with (yet) [master (root-commit) cfa9049] added 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 120000 file $ cd .. $ git clone a a_clone Cloning into a_clone... done. $ cd a_clone $ git annex status (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...) supported backends: SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E WORM URL supported remote types: git bup directory rsync web hook trusted repositories: 0 semitrusted repositories: 3 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web 445d616e-ca8b-11e1-b170-ff8b03c54243 -- origin (a) 5d3db51c-ca8b-11e1-bbc3-039dd06ab47b -- here untrusted repositories: 0 dead repositories: 0 available local disk space: 63 megabytes (+1 megabyte reserved) local annex keys: 0 local annex size: 0 bytes known annex keys: 1 known annex size: 3 bytes backend usage: SHA256: 1 (Recording state in git...) $ ls file $ cat file cat: file: No such file or directory $ git annex get file get file (from origin...) ok (Recording state in git...) $ cat file hi """]]