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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 7"""
+ date="2018-08-02T18:15:13Z"
+ content="""
+Well, git-annex merge does not fetch, it only merges refs it sees. With
+the configuration I gave in the tip, you will not have a cache/git-annex branch for it
+to merge.
+"""]]