[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://caust1c.myopenid.com/" nickname="asbraithwaite" subject="comment 2" date="2013-07-17T23:42:25Z" content=""" What would happen if we wanted to copy a file to the server with that set? or even when running `git annex add` You understood me exactly though. We'd like to be able to get the files without a commit, but copy them with a commit of the changes. The way we operate, if somebody makes a change with regards to largefiles, they should also add a test for it. Ideally, the test suite would catch it. That or people would realize that theres a new big file and send around an email to see who was trying to a largefile when they couldn't reach it. """]]