[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 2""" date="2015-05-06T18:04:35Z" content=""" I don't think you're using a recent version of git-annex, the "(duplicate)" message has changed to something else a while ago. Also, that message is only shown if you pass the --deduplicate flag, which you don't show in your transcript. That flag does what it says on the tin: If the file is a duplicate of one git-annex has seen before, the file is deleted from the import location. (The next version of git-annex does add an additional check that the content of the file is present in the annex.) """]]