[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 2""" date="2019-06-26T15:55:36Z" content=""" Occurs to me that the same problems discussed above also can happen when a new hash is added to git-annex and is used in a repo, that then gets used by an older version of git-annex. The blake2 hashes are one such. So, external backends shouldn't really be blocked by that bad behavior, agurably. """]]