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Behavior change: --trust-glacier option no longer overrides trust

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Since that can lead to data loss, which should never be enabled by an
option other than --force.

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@ -59,13 +59,12 @@ So, git-annex plays it safe, and avoids trusting the inventory:
drop important_file (gpg) (checking glacier...)
Glacier's inventory says it has a copy.
However, the inventory could be out of date, if it was recently removed.
(Use --trust-glacier if you're sure it's still in Glacier.)
(unsafe)
Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies
Like it says, you can use `--trust-glacier` if you're sure
Glacier's inventory is correct and up-to-date.
To avoid this problem, you can either use `git annex move` to move
content to Glacier, or you can set the remote to be [[trusted]].
A final potential gotcha with Glacier is that glacier-cli keeps a local
mapping of file names to Glacier archives. If this cache is lost, or