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+The webapp showed "(metadata only)" behind a repository. Running `git annex upgrade` in the repositories didn't change that. I had top to "upgrade" the repository under "edit" in the webapp to fix that.
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+What did upgrading in the webapp do, that running `git annex upgrade` did not?