[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 3"""
 date="2015-08-13T20:45:36Z"
 content="""
Broken symlinks are really much preferable to files that don't have the
content the user expects. Anyway, git-annex is just inheriting how git
deals with symlinks on filesystems that don't support them.

Previous discussion:
<http://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/symlinks_to_absent_files_remain_upon_switching_to_direct_mode/>
"""]]