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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+I have a annex repo in external drive (a bare repo), usually synced with a macbook. When I'm trying to sync the drive over to a Windows machine, all contents fail to sync over. I managed to reproduce the problem with a set of instructions locally:
+
+    C:\Temp\test>dir                                               
+     Volume in drive C is Windows                                  
+     Volume Serial Number is 6839-6E71                             
+                                                                   
+     Directory of C:\Temp\test                                     
+                                                                   
+    2014/05/08  23:08    <DIR>          .                          
+    2014/05/08  23:08    <DIR>          ..                         
+    2014/05/08  23:08                14 file.txt                   
+                   1 File(s)             14 bytes                  
+                   2 Dir(s)  164,943,056,896 bytes free            
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp\test>git init                                          
+    Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Temp/test/.git/         
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp\test>git annex init                                    
+    init                                                           
+      Detected a filesystem without fifo support.                  
+                                                                   
+      Disabling ssh connection caching.                            
+                                                                   
+      Detected a crippled filesystem.                              
+                                                                   
+      Enabling direct mode.                                        
+    ok                                                             
+    (Recording state in git...)                                    
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp\test>git annex add .                                   
+    add file.txt ok                                                
+    (Recording state in git...)                                    
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp\test>cd ..                                             
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp>mkdir bare                                             
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp>cd bare                                                
+                                                                   
+    C:\Temp\bare>git init --bare                                   
+    Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Temp/bare/              
+    C:\Temp\bare>git annex init
+    init
+      Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
+    
+      Disabling ssh connection caching.
+    
+      Detected a crippled filesystem.
+    ok
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    
+    C:\Temp\bare>cd ../test
+    
+    C:\Temp\test>git remote add mybare C:\Temp\bare
+    
+    C:\Temp\test>git annex sync --content mybare
+    commit  ok
+    pull mybare
+    warning: no common commits
+    remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
+    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
+    remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
+    Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), done.
+    From C:\Temp\bare
+     * [new branch]      git-annex  -> mybare/git-annex
+    ok
+    (merging mybare/git-annex into git-annex...)
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    copy file.txt copy file.txt (to mybare...)
+    file.txt
+              14 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
+    
+    sent 86 bytes  received 31 bytes  234.00 bytes/sec
+    total size is 14  speedup is 0.12
+    ok
+    pull mybare
+    ok
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    push mybare
+    Counting objects: 23, done.
+    Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
+    Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done.
+    Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 1.94 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
+    Total 21 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
+    To C:\Temp\bare
+     * [new branch]      git-annex -> synced/git-annex
+     * [new branch]      annex/direct/master -> synced/master
+    ok
+    
+    C:\Temp\test>cd ..
+    
+    C:\Temp>git clone C:\Temp\bare test2
+    Cloning into 'test2'...
+    done.
+    
+    C:\Temp>cd test2
+    
+    C:\Temp\test2>ls -l
+    total 1
+    ----------+ 1 Ruo None 188 May  8 23:10 file.txt
+    
+    C:\Temp\test2>git annex init
+    init
+      Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
+    
+      Disabling ssh connection caching.
+    
+      Detected a crippled filesystem.
+    
+      Enabling direct mode.
+    ok
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    
+    C:\Temp\test2>git annex get file.txt
+    get file.txt (merging origin/git-annex origin/synced/git-annex into git-annex...)
+    (Recording state in git...)
+    
+      Unable to access these remotes: origin
+    
+      Try making some of these repositories available:
+            f2af6f52-18d5-4a54-ae5c-c4bef5fab00c -- origin (MY-PC:C:\Temp\bare)
+            fc00306a-157c-439b-a5c3-37aabf9d61fb -- MY-PC:C:\Temp\test
+    failed
+    git-annex: get: 1 failed
+    
+    
+    C:\Temp\test2>git version
+    git version 1.9.2.msysgit.0
+    
+    C:\Temp\test2>git annex version
+    git-annex version: 5.20140421-g78d6aa1
+    build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
+    key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL
+    remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web webdav tahoe glacier hook external
+    local repository version: 5
+    supported repository version: 5
+    upgrade supported from repository versions: 2 3 4
+