[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2012-06-04T19:56:05Z"
 content="""
Personally, I deal with this problem by having a directory, or directories where I put files that I want to have on my partial checkout laptop, and run `git annex get` in that directory. 

It's not a perfect solution, but I don't know that a perfect solution exists.
"""]]
