[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://me.yahoo.com/a/bBy7WkgQicYHIiiyj.Vm0TcMbxi2quzbPFef#6f9f7"
 nickname="Frederik Vanrenterghem"
 subject="comment 6"
 date="2015-05-21T06:14:33Z"
 content="""
Thanks Anarcat. I actually was dealing with a repository in direct mode, not bare mode. Only realised after today encountering one in bare mode, and reading [[internals]]. Your method worked too, but

    git annex indirect 

would have been quicker I guess.
"""]]