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```
$ mkdir annex-test
$ cd annex-test/
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/me/annex-test/.git/
$ git annex init
init (scanning for unlocked files...)
ok
(recording state in git...)
$ cat > .gitignore
*
$ cat > exampyle.txt
hello
$ git annex add --no-check-gitignore
add .gitignore (non-large file; adding content to git repository) ok
add exampyle.txt
ok
(recording state in git...)
$ git commit -m \"added\"
[master (root-commit) 2734615] added
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 .gitignore
create mode 120000 exampyle.txt
$ ln -rs exampyle.txt what.foo
$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
$ git annex uninit
git-annex: what.foo points to annexed content, but is not checked into git.
Perhaps this was left behind by an interrupted git annex add?
Not continuing with uninit; either delete or git annex add the file and retry.
```
What should I do?
Honestly, I'm happy with git-annex so far, I'm just thinking that I need to re-init with `annex.tune.objecthashlower=true` because my other computer is windows.
Thanks!

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="nobodyinperson"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/736a41cd4988ede057bae805d000f4f5"
subject="forgot to add the new ignored link + shortcoming of 'ln' command"
date="2023-11-20T10:25:52Z"
content="""
You forgot to add your (gitignore'd) `what.foo` to git. Another `git annex add --no-check-gitignore;git commit -m \"add link\"` will make the subsequent `git annex uninit` work properly. This is also what the error message says, btw.
But there's another problem underneath: Why is `what.foo` an annex-style symlink anyway? It should just point to `example.txt`, right?
```
🐟 ❯ ln -nrs example.txt what.foo
yann in yann-desktop-nixos in …/uninit-test on  main
🐟 ❯ ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 186 yann users 20 Nov 11:08  example.txt -> .git/annex/objects/mK/4w/SHA256E-s6--5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03.txt/SHA256E-s6--5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03.txt
lrwxrwxrwx 186 yann users 20 Nov 11:08  what.foo -> .git/annex/objects/mK/4w/SHA256E-s6--5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03.txt/SHA256E-s6--5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03.txt
```
For some reason `ln` dereferences `example.txt` before linking, resulting in `what.foo` pointing to the same as `example.txt` -- not just to `example.txt` -- causing `what.foo` to look exactly like an annex link. I thought `-n` could fix this, but it would operate on the target `what.foo`, not the source `example.txt` 🤦. I couldn't make `ln` do this properly, except for renaming/removing `example.txt`, then `ln -rsf example.txt what.foo`, then restoring `example.txt`. Not viable. A better solution is `cp -s example.txt what.foo`. That will make `what.foo` point properly to just `example.txt` and not *its* target.
BTW you can still just `git add` things like normal non-annex symlinks like `what.foo`, no need for `git annex add` here.
Also, joey prefers to have bug reports/questions and the like in either [[todo]], [[bugs]] or [[forum]], because it's clear those are the places to look through for issues. Comments below random manpages are quick to be forgotten about. 🙂
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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="NewUser"
nickname="dont.post.me"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/90f59ddc341eaf9b2657422206c06901"
subject="comment 6"
date="2023-11-20T13:17:03Z"
content="""
Thank you for the illuminating comment!
> This is also what the error message says, btw.
Not continuing with uninit; either delete or git annex add the file and retry.
You’re right! I thought I only had a relative symlink pointing to the other symlink and not pointing into .git/annex/objects. It turns out that this is true for most of my symlinks but, just like you pointed out, some of them were pointing into .git/annex and the right thing to do there is to `add` them.
Also, thank you for pointing me towards todo/bugs/forum!
"""]]