diff --git a/doc/bugs/cannot_commit___34__annex_add__34__ed_modified_file_which_switched_its_largefile_status_to_be_committed_to_git_now/comment_1_ad19d064dd9c175debe647a6928e4f35._comment b/doc/bugs/cannot_commit___34__annex_add__34__ed_modified_file_which_switched_its_largefile_status_to_be_committed_to_git_now/comment_1_ad19d064dd9c175debe647a6928e4f35._comment index b627c5d2ed..d6167d7893 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/cannot_commit___34__annex_add__34__ed_modified_file_which_switched_its_largefile_status_to_be_committed_to_git_now/comment_1_ad19d064dd9c175debe647a6928e4f35._comment +++ b/doc/bugs/cannot_commit___34__annex_add__34__ed_modified_file_which_switched_its_largefile_status_to_be_committed_to_git_now/comment_1_ad19d064dd9c175debe647a6928e4f35._comment @@ -3,16 +3,14 @@ subject="""comment 1""" date="2018-08-09T15:57:57Z" content=""" -The partial commit blocking is explained in -[[!commit adc5ca70a8095a389273e7c286cb32de6873a5a3]] +I take this as not being a bug about the partial commit +blocking (as explained in +[[!commit adc5ca70a8095a389273e7c286cb32de6873a5a3]]), which is working +around a git behavior and so can't be fixed other than by going to v6. -That is working around a behavior of git, so it cannot be improved in -git-annex. If it didn't block partial commits, the repository would be left -in a broken state. The error message explains what you need to do. - -(The best fix for this issue is making v6 mode work well enough to ditch v5 -mode. This is indeed one of the motivations for v6 mode in the first place.) - -So I don't see a bug here except possibly with the part where git commit -a -commits to annex not git. +Instead, I think this is a bug about git annex add of an unlocked file +not converting it to a in-git file when annex.largefiles says it ought +to. If it did that it would not run into the partial commit blocking +at all. And, the observersion about git commit -a committing to the annex +not to git points at the same problem. """]]