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+It seems that things like `git annex wanted . present` cause network activity, maybe git-annex fetches remotes and tries to look up IDs and such. I didn't find a general flag to disables this. Something like `--offline` would be nice for scripts in networks that might hang indefinitely in certain situations. Does this exist? 🤔