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+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2021-12-26T16:17:43Z"
+ content="""
+It looks rather like the full content of the file may already have been
+downloaded, in `.git/annex/tmp/` which is why it "resumes"
+from the end of the file.
+
+But this does not necessarily look like a protocol problem. The protocol
+handles no more data being sent. The failure is on the receiving side,
+after it's received the data it indicates an overall failure.
+
+One reason this could be happening is if the file in `.git/annex/tmp/` is
+corrupted, so verifying the completed download fails.
+
+I tried two experiements. First, I populated `.git/annex/tmp/` with a copy of
+the annexed object file from the other repository. Then `git-annex get`
+succeeded, and looked this this:
+
+	[2021-12-26 11:25:32.364107322] (P2P.IO) [ThreadId 4] P2P < GET 30 foo SHA256E-s30--8559e95c5b77e5e577466959d83097039d0d3f2b6a7e18b2fd5df0188ef648c6
+	[2021-12-26 11:25:32.365992548] (P2P.IO) [ThreadId 4] P2P > DATA 0
+	[2021-12-26 11:25:32.366778465] (P2P.IO) [ThreadId 4] P2P > VALID
+	[2021-12-26 11:25:32.394964731] (P2P.IO) [ThreadId 4] P2P < SUCCESS
+
+Next, I did the same, but corrupted the tmp file. With that I reproduced
+your problem exactly.
+
+So, I suggest you try deleting files in `.git/annex/tmp/` and get them again.
+
+I think that git-annex should probably try to recover from this by,
+when verification of a downloaded file fails, deleting the tmp file.
+But that will need some more thought.
+"""]]