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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2017-02-13T19:36:11Z"
+ content="""
+Suggest you restore everything except for `.git/annex/objects`.
+That should not be a lot of data to restore, but it will get
+you a fully working git repository back. Then you won't need the two-step
+process to restore a file, and can instead just restore the `.git/annex/objects`
+file that a symlink points to.
+"""]]