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one-off unlocked annex files that go against largefiles configuration

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I've been debugging an intermittent DataLad test failure
(<https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/5300>) that is related to
an unlocked annex file whose content switches to being tracked by git.
Basically
* `git annex add` file A to the annex.
* Configure `annex.largefiles` in a way that would have sent file A
to git.
* If file A's mtime matches the index's, adding file B triggers the
clean filter to run on file A and sends its content to git in when
an unrelated file is added.
This sequence looks pretty close to a situation described in a comment
of the bug report below, except that `annex.largefiles` is configured
persistently in the repository rather than via a temporary `-c
annex.largefiles` override.
https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/A_case_where_file_tracked_by_git_unexpectedly_becomes_annex_pointer_file/#comment-215a295d83c8a08806d4f9c65ae52b10
As a concrete example, here's a demo that configures .txt files to be
added to git, but then forces the addition of an unlocked annex file
with `--force-large`.
[[!format sh """
cd "$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/ga-XXXXXXX)" || exit 1
git version
git annex version | head -1
git init -q
git annex init
git config annex.addunlocked true
printf '*.txt annex.largefiles=nothing\n' >.gitattributes
git add .gitattributes
git commit -m"configured annex.largefiles"
echo a >foo.txt
git annex add --force-large foo.txt
git diff
"""]]
```
git version 2.31.1.394.g7d1e84936f
git-annex version: 8.20210330
init (scanning for unlocked files...)
ok
(recording state in git...)
[master (root-commit) 0018dd1] configured annex.largefiles
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
create mode 100644 .gitattributes
add foo.txt
ok
(recording state in git...)
diff --git a/foo.txt b/foo.txt
index 4580ed7..7898192 100644
--- a/foo.txt
+++ b/foo.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/annex/objects/SHA256E-s2--87428fc522803d31065e7bce3cf03fe475096631e5e07bbd7a0fde60c4cf25c7.txt
+a
```
Is the above showing expected behavior? That is, if
`annex.largefiles` is configured to send a file to git, the clean
filter will move it there the next time it runs on it?