Turns out that git-annex breaks badly when git is configured with `safe.bareRepository = explicit`. The breakage starts with git-annex init: joey@darkstar:~/tmp>git init g Initialized empty Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/g/.git/ joey@darkstar:~/tmp>cd g joey@darkstar:~/tmp/g>git-annex init init ok (recording state in git...) joey@darkstar:~/tmp/g>git show git-annex | tail + joey@darkstar:~/tmp/g timestamp=1688579729.946567508s uuid.log has a NoUUID item logged to it. This is despite annex.uuid being set. This is because git-annex runs `git config --list` inside `.git`.. Which with that config set, omits looking at `config` because it thinks it's in a bare repository. > [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]