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[[!comment format=mdwn
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username="joey"
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subject="""Re: Weird behavior of git archive in combination with largefiles configuration"""
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date="2023-02-20T18:52:43Z"
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content="""
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That behavior does not really have anything to do with the use of
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`git-annex unannex`.
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You have configured annex.largefiles to something that matches a file. The
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file is not checked into git (perhaps because you ran `git-annex unannex`
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after adding it earlier, but it could just as well be a new file). You run
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`git add` on the file. What happens? Well, `git add` asks git-annex if the
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file should be annexed. Your annex.largefiles configuration tells it it
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should. So the file is added to the annex, and a pointer file is checked
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into git. (Not a symlink because the file is added unlocked;
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see [[git-annex-unlock]].)
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`git archive` does not archive the contents of the annex, so it only
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archives the pointer file content.
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What you can do is use `git-annex add --force-small` when adding the file
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to override the annex.largefiles config. See [[tips/largefiles]] at the
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bottom for a recipe for using that to convert an annexed file to be stored
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in git.
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"""]]
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