[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joey.kitenet.net/"
 nickname="joey"
 subject="comment 8"
 date="2011-05-15T00:09:34Z"
 content="""
What you're describing should be impossible; the error message shown can only occur if the object is present in the annex where `git-annex-shell recvkey` is run. So something strange is going on.

Try reproducing it by running on the remote system, `git-annex-shell recvkey /remote/repo.git $key` .. if you can reproduce it, I guess the next thing to do will be to strace the command and see why it's thinking the object is there.
"""]]