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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2021-03-05T16:29:35Z"
+ content="""
+The conversion of the git file to an annexed file is a known problem, 
+<https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/import_tree_annexes_files_that_were_exported_non-annexed/>
+
+The failure to get the content of the file when that happens is a bug
+though. (I think it may be a reversion as I seem to remember that working,
+but I could be mistaken.)
+
+It seems to be caused by an underlying inability to get the file:
+
+	get file.txt (from test...) (checksum...) 
+	  verification of content failed
+
+Which in turn is due to a confusion between two different SHA1s.
+When exporting a file stored in git, git-annex use the SHA1 git uses for it,
+but that is not actually the SHA1 of the file, but of the file size and file
+or something like that. Then when the file gets converted to an annexed
+file, it uses a git-annex get with that same SHA1. But git-annex expects
+the content of a SHA1 keyed file to match that SHA1, which is not the case here.
+
+So verification fails, and that's also why importing doesn't get the content.
+
+This is certainly a bug. I guess the best way to fix it would be to fix
+the above todo.
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2021-03-05T16:38:25Z"
+ content="""
+This leads to worse behavior than just converting to annexed from
+non-annexed. The converted file's contents don't verify due to some
+confusion between git and git-annex's use of SHA1. See 
+<https://git-annex.branchable.com/forum/__96__git_annex_import__96___from_directory_loses_contents__63__/>
+"""]]