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 Finish "git annex watch" command, which runs, in the background, watching via
 inotify for changes, and automatically annexing new files, etc.
 
-There is a `watch` branch in git that adds such a command, although currently
+There is a `watch` branch in git that adds such a command. To make this
-it only handles adding new files, and nothing else. To make this really
+really useful, it needs to:
-useful, it needs to:
 
-- notice deleted files and stage the deletion
+- on startup, add any files that have appeared since last run **done**
-  (tricky; there's a race with add..)
+- on startup, fix the symlinks for any renamed links **done**
+- on startup, stage any files that have been deleted since last run
+  (seems to require a `git commit -a` on startup, or at least a
+  `git add --update`, which will notice deleted files)
+- notice new files, and git annex add **done**
 - notice renamed files, auto-fix the symlink, and stage the new file location
   **done**
 - handle cases where directories are moved outside the repo, and stop
   watching them **done**
-- when a whole directory is deleted, stage removal of its
+- when a whole directory is deleted or moved, stage removal of its
-  contents in the index **done**
+  contents from the index **done**
+- notice deleted files and stage the deletion
+  (tricky; there's a race with add since it replaces the file with a symlink..)
 - periodically auto-commit staged changes (avoid autocommitting when
   lots of changes are coming in)
 - tunable delays before adding new files, etc
-- honor .gitignore, not adding files it excludes
+- don't annex `.gitignore` and `.gitattributes` files, but do auto-stage
+  changes to them
+- configurable option to only annex files meeting certian size or
+  filename criteria
+- honor .gitignore, not adding files it excludes (difficult, probably
+  needs my own .gitignore parser to avoid excessive running of git commands
+  to check for ignored files)
 
 Also to do: