[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9sYlePmv1xK-VvjBdN-5doOa_Xw-jH4U"
 nickname="Richard"
 subject="comment 11"
 date="2011-05-15T18:53:26Z"
 content="""
It seems the objects are in the remote after all, but the remote is unaware of this fact. No idea where/why the remote lost that info, but.. Anyway, with the SHA backends, wouldn't it make sense to simply return \"OK\" and update the annex logs accordingly, no?

Local:

    % ls -l foo
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 richih richih 312 Apr  3 01:18 foo -> .git/annex/objects/gG/VW/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491
    % 

Remote:

    % git-annex-shell recvkey <remote> SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491
    git-annex-shell: key is already present in annex
    % strace git-annex-shell recvkey /base/git-annex/fun SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491 2>&1 | grep SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491
    stat64(\"/base/git-annex/fun/annex/objects/gG/VW/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491\", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=80781, ...}) = 0
    % ls -l /base/git-annex/fun/annex/objects/gG/VW/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491
    -r--r--r-- 1 richih richih 80781 2011-04-01 12:44 /base/git-annex/fun/annex/objects/gG/VW/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491/SHA512-s80781--cef3966a19c7435acceb8fbfbff1feebe6decab7c81a0c197f00932cf9ef0eac330784cc3f0d211bd4acf56a6d16daaebe9b598aa4dfd5bfec73f4e6df3f0491
    % 
"""]]