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+As of right now, the only way to commit changes to direct repositories is `git annex sync [remote]`.
+There is no way to specify what directory to operate on.
+When moving around files on a larger scale, the ability to commit specific subsets of changes would be rather nice.
+
+`git annex commit [path]` or `git annex sync [remote] -- [path]` would probably make sense.
+
+
+Thanks,
+Richard