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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2016-09-05T16:28:01Z"
+ content="""
+git-annex exposes an extensive traditional command line interface,
+very much like the interface exposed by git.
+
+I presume that java can, perhaps with some difficulty, use such an
+interface.
+"""]]