[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="4.152.108.27" subject="comment 1" date="2012-11-10T00:36:49Z" content=""" The three character directories, as well as the uuid.log file are supposed to stay in the git-annex branch. Perhaps you have somehow merged that branch into your master branch? I recommend you look at the history of your git repository to see how it happened. It seems very unlikely that git-annex did this. """]]