[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.246"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2013-11-15T20:33:47Z"
 content="""
Drop in direct mode does the same thing as in indirect mode.

If you are using git-annex on a crippled filesystem without symlinks, git-annex cannot represent a file whose content has been dropped using a broken symlink, so it instead represents it with a nearly empty file.
"""]]
