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Joey Hess 2014-07-03 15:04:16 -04:00
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### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
5.20140529 on Debian testing
> This is fundamentally something git-annex cannot deal with,
> because there is no way to hook into git to fix the symlink when
> `git mv` moves the file.
>
> Instead, git-annex has several "good enough" fixes for the problem:
>
> * As soon as you `git commit`, the pre-commit hook will run `git annex
> fix` and this will fix the symlink before it gets committed.
> * You can run `git annex fix` yourself after `git mv`.
> * Even `git annex add $file` will fix the symlink if the file is already
> annexed.
>
> So, [[done]] --[[Joey]]