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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 6"""
date="2015-07-02T19:14:40Z"
content="""
Yeah, --prune=now is bad news when using git-annex. At least, if
you might be doing it at the same time that git-annex is staging
objects in the index.
Using it in combination with annex.alwayscommit=false is a particularly
foot-shootish thing. I've added a warning to its documentation.
`git gc` uses a lock file, `.git/gc.pid`. It might be possible for
git-annex to hold that lock when it's in the process of staging and
committing objects, to avoid `git gc` running at such times.
"""]]

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commit the data by running `git annex merge` (or by automatic merges)
or `git annex sync`.
Note that you beware running `git gc` if using this configuration,
since it could garbage collect objects that are staged in git-annex's
index but not yet committed.
* `annex.hardlink`
Set this to `true` to make file contents be hard linked into the