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+Lets say I have an annex, called Global in some location A. The plan is to mirror it to some location B.
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+I suddenly decide that Global has become too unwieldy, and I wish to split it up. 
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+I "rsync -Lhav" the entire annex over to B, so it turns back into raw files (as I'm a little worried about the broken symlinks some have mentioned when using uninit).
+I then reorganize all the files in B into five new annexes. Yay.
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+Now, I clone those five repos back onto A. How can I use the content of the original repo "Global" to populate the new annexes?
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+**Approach 1**: delete Global, use git-annex copy (slow, wasteful use of precious disk life)
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+**Approach 2**: uninit Global, deal with whatever broken symlink mess *may* occur, and then use reinject. Reinject doesn't seem to work recursively afaik (ok, I can use find -type f -exec I guess...), and doesn't seem to want to work on files that are sitting inside an annex already (i.e. the uninit is not optional)
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+So besides these two, are there any approaches I'm overlooking?
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+Context: entire photo collection. split into e.g. parents digitized photos, my photos, etc