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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.153.8.243"
+ subject="comment 3"
+ date="2012-05-31T17:01:37Z"
+ content="""
+`dead` is the best we can do. The automatic merging used on the git-annex branch tends to re-add lines that are deleted in one repo when merging with another that still has them.
+"""]]