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+git annex unused supports an --from option to select a specific remote to find unused data in. When you use that on a repository which is not linked to from the current repository by a git remote, git annex fails:
+
+    $ git annex unused --from somerepository
+    git-annex: there is no available git remote named somerepository
+    $ git annex unused --from repowithremote
+    unused repowithremote (checking for unused data...) 
+    [...]
+
+As git annex at least for newly-deleted files knows when those are stored in the given repository, git annex should at least find those.