[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2014-11-03T16:55:45Z" content=""" I cannot reproduce this. (I made the hostname i3 point to localhost to test it.) Please paste the output of `git annex sync --debug` and `git config --list`. If you have any executable hooks in .git/hooks, please check that they don't try to run "git annex i3" for some reason. """]]