[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="64.134.31.139"
 subject="comment 1"
 date="2013-10-22T17:37:44Z"
 content="""
The sad state of affairs that in the supposedly modern 21st century, popular operating systems are regressing in functionality? 

Yes, git-annex can deal with this. `git annex init` will detect when it's run on a crippled filesystem and enable various workarounds, including [[direct_mode]].

The git-annex android app deals with all this automatically when creating a repository.
"""]]
