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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="https://launchpad.net/~stephane-gourichon-lpad"
nickname="stephane-gourichon-lpad"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/02d4a0af59175f9123720b4481d55a769ba954e20f6dd9b2792217d9fa0c6089"
subject=""Hmm, guyz? Are you serious with these scripts?" Well, what's the matter?"
date="2016-11-15T10:58:32Z"
content="""
## Wow, scary
Dilyin's comment is scary. It suggests bad things can happen, but is not very clear.
Bloated history is one thing.
Obviously broken repo is bad but can be (slowly) recovered from remotes.
Subtly crippled history that you don't notice can be a major problem (especially once you have propagated it to all your remotes to \"recover from bloat\").
## More common than it seems
There's a case probably more common than people actually report: mistakenly doing `git add` instead of `git annex add` and realizing it only after a number of commits. Doing `git annex add` at that time will have the file duplicated (regular git and annex).
Extra wish: when doing `git annex add` of a file that is already present in git history, `git-annex` could notice and tell.
## Simple solution?
Can anyone elaborate on the scripts provided here, are they safe? What can happen if improperly used or in corner cases?
* \"files are replaced with symlinks and are in the index\" -> so what ?
* \"Make sure that you don't have annex.largefiles settings that would prevent annexing the files.\" -> What would happen? Also `.gitattributes`.
Thank you.
"""]]