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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+I’m not sure whether this is a bug or a technical limitation, but here
+you go: In direct mode, if a file is locally changed but unsynced,
+«git annex whereis» and «git annex list» behave as if the file were
+still unchanged. Any changes would only show after «git annex sync» or
+«git annex add» (altough I’m not sure what the latter does if a file
+is already annexed).
+
+Syncing prior to «whereis» is not viable since I might not want to
+proliferate the changes to other remotes. Would it be reasonable making
+sure that «whereis» considers uncommitted local changes?
+
+If doing so is too expensive to do implicitly, it would be useful
+having an explicit means of seeing local changes in direct mode
+repositories. Is «git annex add» the intended way of doing so?
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+1. Clone A to B.
+2. Get file $f from A to B.
+3. Switch B to direct mode.
+4. Edit file $f.
+5. «git annex list» reports that $f is on both A and B.
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+git-annex 5.20140421
+Linux 3.14.3