add a warning and a related todo

arising from a conversation at FOSSY
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Joey Hess 2023-07-13 19:57:34 -04:00
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@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ Finally the annexed file contents need to be copied to the new repository:
# Fix up annex links to content and make sure it's all ok.
git annex fsck
Warning: This method of copying the annexed file contents and dropping
the unused ones causes the git-annex branch to log information.
# alternative older method
Here is another way to do it. Suppose the old big repo is at `~/oldrepo`: