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add: Avoid a failure mode that resulted in the file seemingly being deleted (content put in the annex but no symlink present).

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Joey Hess 2011-07-07 19:29:36 -04:00
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@ -8,3 +8,7 @@ Recently I ran into the following situation under Ubuntu with an encrypted home
The file seems to be completely gone. It no longer exists in the current directory, or under .git/annex.
I don't mind horribly that git-annex failed due to the name length limit, but it shouldn't have deleted my file in the process (fortunately the file wasn't very important, or hard to recover).
> [[done]], as noted it did not delete content and now it makes the symlink
> before trying to write to the location log, avoiding that gotcha.
> --[[Joey]]