[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 1"""
 date="2015-05-30T15:33:13Z"
 content="""
The configuration you describe sounds right and should work.

Are you sure that the laptop had seen the changed configuration from the
server when `git annex sync --content` didn't send files to the server?
Ie, did you try running it a second time?
"""]]
