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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 3"""
+ date="2018-10-04T19:05:23Z"
+ content="""
+Can you please provide more information about what you did to get into this
+state? Running `git annex forget` does not cause git-annex to forget about
+content that is present in a remote.
+"""]]