[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="4.154.7.238" subject="comment 2" date="2013-01-10T16:06:28Z" content=""" That is how direct mode works. (Although without the hard links, since maintaining them doesn't have any benefits.) And that's how downloading into a direct mode repo works. The issue I'm dealing with, though, is uploading from a direct mode repo, where the file that's being uploaded can be modified at the same time. """]]