Touching a locked file in a v6 repository follows the symlink and touches the object file. This makes inAnnex's sameInodeCache fail because the keys database has a different mtime cached, and so `git annex unlock` doesn't populate the file with content, but with a pointer file. Also, `git annex` fsck complains no copies exist even though the symlink is pointing at a copy. This seems another reason to not check sameInodeCache for locked content, along with --[[Joey]] Note that after initial `git annex add` into a v6 repository, the keys database does not have an inode cached. But after an unlock followed by a lock, it does. So, here's a complete reproducer: git annex init --version=6 date > file git annex add file git annex unlock file git annex lock file touch file git annex unlock file cat file /annex/objects/... > now [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]