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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="nivek-retsof@97a405d1563af7581f6c8d1f7bae67b0ce896721"
+ nickname="nivek-retsof"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/3aec9a88897e105952a4ed38007fb224"
+ subject="Thanks!"
+ date="2019-11-05T22:18:49Z"
+ content="""
+This behavior makes more sense to me. I like keeping my text files in git and binaries in git-annex, and treating them separately is no great mental burden.
+
+Thanks for your great work. Git-annex has become one of the best parts of my computing experience. It is a great relief knowing that my files are in a robust distributed and redundant collection that is easy to maintain.
+"""]]