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+I have some repositories where I want to manually control what files are added (autocommit=false), but would like to have the assistant/webapp automatically sync commits and transfer files.
+However it seems that the assistant is not notified if I manually do a commit.
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+The only solution right now seems to frequently restart the assistant since the startup scan will transfer files if required or run git annex get/copy manually.