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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="+1 for a command to sync only the git-annex branch"
+ date="2019-07-19T18:16:08Z"
+ content="""
+I've also missed this functionality.  One use is to sync the [[metadata|git-annex-metadata]].
+"""]]