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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.2"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2014-07-10T18:48:17Z"
+ content="""
+Reproduced. `git annex sync --content` has the same problem.
+
+Of course, both it and the assistant *do* check if files can be dropped. For some reason, it is deciding it is not safe to drop the file.
+"""]]