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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://edheil.wordpress.com/"
+ ip="173.162.44.162"
+ subject="comment 3"
+ date="2013-06-04T12:29:04Z"
+ content="""
+As long as you're not using Direct Mode, then a git-annex repo is just an absolutely ordinary git repo, which happens to contain some symlinks that point to .git/annex/objects/*
+
+
+"""]]