Unfortunately the initial gcrypt repository layout had to be changed after git-annex version 4.20130920. If you have an encrypted git repository created using version 4.20130920 or 4.20130909, you need to manually upgrade it. If you look at the contents of your gcrypt repository, you will see a bare git repository, with a few three-letter subdirectories, which are where git-annex stores its encrypted file contents:
27f/ branches/ description hooks/ objects/ HEAD config f37/ info/ refs/In the example above, the subdirectories are `27f` and `f37`. All you need to do to transition is move those subdirectories into an `annex/objects` directory. mkdir annex ; mkdir annex/objects ; mv 27f f37 annex/objects Probably those are the only 3 letter things inside your git repository, so this will probably work: mkdir annex ; mkdir annex/objects ; mv ??? annex/objects