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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.153.14.105"
+ subject="comment 5"
+ date="2013-09-19T20:57:18Z"
+ content="""
+You can safely delete the git repository in the situation you describe. Better yet: Tar it up, and check the tarball into git-annex with the other files when you start over. :) Then if I'm wrong, you still have that data.
+"""]]