[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="209.250.56.87" subject="comment 2" date="2013-12-16T20:42:23Z" content=""" That's not how special remotes work -- they have nothing to do with the symlinks in the work tree, which are managed by git (or git-annex in direct mode). They only store values for keys. """]]