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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="4.153.14.141"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2012-09-22T12:40:55Z"
+ content="""
+Looks like you have a corrupt known_hosts file, but I'm pretty sure git-annex did not do it, as it only lets ssh update that as normal. If you delete the problem lines it'll probably work, though you might want to save a copy to investigate what happened.
+"""]]