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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="michael.hanke@c60e12358aa3fc6060531bdead1f530ac4d582ec"
+ nickname="michael.hanke"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/f881df265a423e4f24eff27c623148fd"
+ subject="Re: Empty lines sent by git-annex to an external special remote"
+ date="2019-05-14T08:48:27Z"
+ content="""
+Sorry for the noise. The reason was that my special remote was calling SSH internally and the parent's `stdin` was connected to the SSH process -- which confused all involved parties.
+"""]]