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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="annex.thin for importing from directory special remote"
+ date="2020-07-01T22:23:58Z"
+ content="""
+As a special case, when importing from a directory special remote, could there be an option to hardlink the files into the repo instead of copying them?
+"""]]