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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joey.kitenet.net/"
+ nickname="joey"
+ subject="comment 5"
+ date="2011-12-23T16:50:26Z"
+ content="""
+My goal for `git-annex merge` is that users should not need to know about it, so it should not be doing expensive pulls.
+
+I hope that `git annex sync` will grow some useful features to support fully distributed git usage, as being discussed in [[pure_git-annex_only_workflow]]. I still use centralized git to avoid these problems myself.
+"""]]