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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="rrnewton@63c9faa1997c908b1dc04dfdca33c809660cd158"
+ nickname="rrnewton"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/638acc3e55c2bb09aa0dcca5b5c8acb6"
+ subject="Sounds great!"
+ date="2018-05-21T18:09:35Z"
+ content="""
+That's fabulous.  A Bash alias around that command is really all I need when working in direct mode.  (And the archive's too damn big to switch back and forth between direct/indirect.)
+
+I was just too much a newb with git attributes to know it could be done that way.  For discoverability, maybe that command could be placed in an \"examples\" section in the primary documentation above?
+
+
+
+"""]]