[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 19"""
 date="2018-12-03T17:34:10Z"
 content="""
git-annex looks at the file's stat() and only if the device id is the same
as the stat of the destination directory does it use `cp`. If you see it
running `rsync` instead, it's under the perhaps mistaken impression that
it's a cross-device copy.
"""]]
