From bfb94c4a0f79ee10bac3c693022eb3c8b50a8613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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 "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmlO6w9_FAVe3v6MdnkePxaTJqp0RPbGhM"
 <Tim@web>
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:14:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]

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+I've just tried using git annex assistant for the first time, to synchronize a shared directory between machines. This shared directory contains a collection of bare git repositories for various projects. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work, as to be recognised as valid bare repos, they need to have the ref/heads and ref/tags subdirectories. git annex assistant fails to synchronise these, as they are empty.
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+What should I do? How can I make git annex reproduce the source directory structure when synchronising?