[[!comment format=mdwn username="nobodyinperson" avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/736a41cd4988ede057bae805d000f4f5" subject="comment 3" date="2023-04-16T17:49:50Z" content=""" The obvious problem I guess is that you can't have a file and a folder of the same name. git annex needs to put stuff in `$repo/.git/...`, but if `.git` is a *file*, that doesn't work. """]]