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+### Please describe the problem.
+When attempting to 'git annex get' a file that does not exist in the git repository, git-annex correctly reports "not found".  But it still returns exit code 0, incorrectly indicating success.  This is problematic for scripting.
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+See transcript
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+git-annex 5.20140517.4 as supplied by 'git-annex' aptitude package on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (32-bit) 
+
+### Please provide any additional information below.
+
+[[!format sh """
+
+henry@commsbox:~/work/tmp$ git init test
+Initialized empty Git repository in /home/henry/work/tmp/test/.git/
+henry@commsbox:~/work/tmp$ cd test
+henry@commsbox:~/work/tmp/test$ git annex init
+init  ok
+(Recording state in git...)
+henry@commsbox:~/work/tmp/test$ git annex get nonexistent.file
+git-annex: nonexistent.file not found
+henry@commsbox:~/work/tmp/test$ echo $?
+0
+
+
+"""]]