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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Lukey"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/c7c08e2efd29c692cc017c4a4ca3406b"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2020-11-23T19:06:13Z"
+ content="""
+Did you change the [[backend|https://git-annex.branchable.com/backends/]] of some files via `.gitattributes` in the meantime? I think git annex's smudge/clean filter will then return the hash of the new backend and that differs from the one of the old backend, so git reports the files as changed.
+"""]]