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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2018-04-04T16:18:11Z"
+ content="""
+The webapp is changing the git configuration 
+"remote.<name>.annex-sync" to false to disable and back to true to enable.
+
+You can use `git config` to change that yourself. 
+
+However, if you have the assistant running in the background and make such
+a git configuration change, it won't notice the change, and will keep
+running with the old configuration. So you'll want to restart it by running
+`git annex assistant --stop; git annex assistant`
+"""]]