See If a local repo is cloned with "git clone orig/.git new", then git-annex in new cannot see origin. the .git/config has "url=/.../orig/.git". Apparently git is ok with that weird construction; probably it treats it as a bare git repo. But git-annex just sees a directory w/o a .git subdir, and gives up. --- Just tested, and the new support for bare repositories didn't solve this. (Because config.bare is not set.) I think this is not something git-annex should go out of its way to support. [[done]] --[[Joey]] Later.. Fixed this after all. --[[Joey]]