analysis

Logs/PreferredContent.hs

@@ -57,8 +57,13 @@ checkMap getmap mu notpresent mkey afile d = do
 	u <- maybe getUUID return mu
 	m <- getmap
 	case M.lookup u m of
-		Nothing -> return d
-		Just matcher -> checkMatcher matcher mkey afile notpresent d
+		Nothing -> do
+			liftIO $ print ("default for", u, d)
+			return d
+		Just matcher -> do
+			r <- checkMatcher matcher mkey afile notpresent d
+			liftIO $ print ("checking for ", u, r)
+			return r
 
 preferredContentMap :: Annex (FileMatcherMap Annex)
 preferredContentMap = maybe (fst <$> preferredRequiredMapsLoad) return

doc/bugs/git_annex_preferred_content_strange_behavior/comment_3_51849db15fdd2b79a82f6eba86479134._comment

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 3"""
+ date="2015-10-06T21:10:44Z"
+ content="""
+Intriguingly, debugging shows it's checking the preferred content of
+the repo it's in, rather than of the repo it's copying to!
+
+And indeed, git-annex sync --content doesn't copy the file to B.
+So, this bug is in `git-annex copy --to --auto`, and not in preferred
+content handling in general.
+"""]]