[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joey.kitenet.net/" nickname="joey" subject="comment 2" date="2011-02-02T00:41:24Z" content=""" And following on to my transcript, you can then add the file to git in the regular git way, and it works fine: 
joey@gnu:~/tmp/demo>git add file
joey@gnu:~/tmp/demo>git commit
[master 225ffc0] added as regular git file, not in annex
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 file
joey@gnu:~/tmp/demo>ls -l file
-rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey 3 Feb  1 20:38 file
joey@gnu:~/tmp/demo>git log file
commit 225ffc048f5af7c0466b3b1fe549a6d5e9a9e9fe
Author: Joey Hess 
Date:   Tue Feb 1 20:43:13 2011 -0400

    added as regular git file, not in annex

commit 78a09cc791b875c3b859ca9401e5b6472bf19d08
Author: Joey Hess 
Date:   Tue Feb 1 20:38:30 2011 -0400

    unannex

commit 64cf267734adae05c020d9fd4d5a7ff7c64390db
Author: Joey Hess 
Date:   Tue Feb 1 20:38:18 2011 -0400

    add
"""]]