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 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="216.145.95.162"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2014-05-19T16:56:15Z"
 content="""
erics, that all makes a lot of sense, except I don't know if there's actually a use case for a git-annex that behaves that way. It doesn't seem to solve the original use case.

I'd be inclinded to instead use the new metadata support. A file could have a tag that indicates it's not strongly wanted, and if git-annex get doesn't have enough space it could seek out and drop such files.
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