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+I looked into post-receive hook of an arbitrary git/git-annex repo to find
+
+[[!format sh """
+(git-annex)hopa:/tmp/testds/.git/hooks[master]
+$> cat post-receive           
+#!/bin/sh
+# automatically configured by git-annex
+if git annex post-receive --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then git annex post-receive; fi
+"""]]
+
+and wondered why it actually needs conditioning? `--help` runs for me longer (40-50ms) than actual `git annex post-receive` call (20ms) when there is nothing todo.  So I wondered why wasting time on `--help`?
+
+[[!meta author=yoh]]