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+--in=here checks if the object file is actually present. I recently had a
+situation where my repo was copied from elsewhere but missing the object
+files, and I wanted to get back the same objects. So I had to disable that
+check. So an option that checks for files expected to be here would be
+useful. --[[Joey]]