[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="lh"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/d31bade008d7da493d9bfb37d68fd825"
 subject="Discrepancy between `git add` and `git annex add` when annex.largefiles is set"
 date="2022-04-13T23:15:25Z"
 content="""
> Once you've told git-annex what files are large, both git annex add and git add/git commit -a will add the large files to the annex and the small files to git.

I have a repo where I have run:
    git annex config --set annex.largefiles '(mimeencoding=binary and not mimetype=inode/symlink) or mimeencoding=unknown-8bit'

My git-annex package is built with support for MIME detection. It works for other files. But I have noticed that for certain files, `git add` does not add them to the annex. I have verified the MIME type and encoding with `file` so that I could check `git annex matchexpression`, and it matches. What might be happening here?
"""]]