[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="mbroadhead"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/f3d801c0c943caab1152c4ebe8c99d51"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2017-03-03T16:59:52Z"
 content="""
> I think there are situations where I want to completely abort a commit and
> not have to worry about it biting me down the road.

If you don't want to have to worry about a `git reset --hard` biting you down
the road the way that it works now, just make sure you clean up after yourself.
Example:

```
cd ~/annex
cp /tmp/foo .
git annex add foo

# Oh, I decided I don't want \"foo\" in my annex right now, so I do a reset.
# This will leave the data associated with \"foo\" in a git object in the git
# store.  When running 'git annex import' sometime in the future, this will
# make any files that contain the same data as \"foo\" to be considered
# duplicate.  This will cause \"foo\" to be considered a duplicate by git annex
# import, which we don't want in this scenario.
git reset --hard

# In order to avoid \"foo\" being a duplicate, find the dangling git object:
git annex unused

# And drop it:
git annex dropunused N

# Now \"foo\" won't be marked as a duplicate if you run any of the following
# commands:
git annex import /tmp/backup/foo --skip-duplicates
git annex import /tmp/backup/foo --clean-duplicates
git annex import /tmp/backup/foo --deduplicate
```
"""]]