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+I have git-annex set up with three clients and a transfer repository and everything was working fine, but a couple of days ago I noticed that git-annex was starting to upload to the transfer repository files that where already present on the three clients, and it hasn't stopped since. It's uploading all my files and I don't really know why.
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+Is there a way to know why does git-annex think it needs to upload this files?