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My collaborators and I use git annex to track various large data files (among some smaller metadata files managed by ordinary git). Some of these data files need to change completely -- the old ones were just wrong. So I do a git checkout, but don't `git annex get` because it would just be a waste of time and bandwidth. This means that my "data files" are just broken symlinks. Now, I find that by making the necessary directories under `.git/annex/objects/`, I can write to these files in the usual directory structure (not through `.git/annex/objects`). But now they are are longer symlinks, and git/git-annex doesn't seem to realize that anything has changed. Is this recoverable?
Would it have been better to just `git rm` (or something) the original version of the file, commit that, and then add the new data? And if so, how should I go about this now that I've created these many very large files? If not, what would be the preferred way to do this?