Hello!

Can someone explain this behavior to me? System is ArchLinux with the newest prebuilt tarballs as of Jan 12th.

     ~ % mkdir GA1
     ~ % cd GA1
     ~/GA1 % git init      
    Initialized empty Git repository in /home/florian/GA1/.git/
     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % git annex init
    init  ok
    (Recording state in git...)
     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % echo "GA1" > testfile
     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % git annex add .
    add testfile ok
    (Recording state in git...)
     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % git annex sync
    commit  ok
     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % cd ..

     ~ % git clone GA1 GA2
    Cloning into 'GA2'...
    done.
     ~ % cd GA2
     ~/GA2 (git)-[master] % git annex init
    init  ok
    (Recording state in git...)
     ~/GA2 (git)-[master] % git annex get .
    get testfile (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
    (Recording state in git...)
    (from origin...) ok
    (Recording state in git...)
     ~/GA2 (git)-[master] % git annex unlock testfile 
    unlock testfile (copying...) ok
     ~/GA2 (git)-[master] % echo "GA2" > testfile 
    commit  ok
    pull origin 
    ok
    push origin 
    Counting objects: 27, done.
    Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (20/20), 1.88 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
    Total 20 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
    To /home/florian/GA1
       f0654aa..8d0bdf9  master -> synced/master
     * [new branch]      git-annex -> synced/git-annex
    ok
     ~/GA2 (git)-[master] % cd ../GA1

     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % git annex sync
    (merging synced/git-annex into git-annex...)
    commit  ok
    merge synced/master 
    Updating f0654aa..8d0bdf9
    Fast-forward
     e6a/e57/SHA256E-s4--241dca52164d30bee7a0be8c097f02e382acff765a9d4136718a37abd437a57c.log | 1 +
     testfile                                                                                 | 2 +-
     2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
     create mode 100644 e6a/e57/SHA256E-s4--241dca52164d30bee7a0be8c097f02e382acff765a9d4136718a37abd437a57c.log
    ok

     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % ll
    total 4
    drwxr-x--- 1 florian florian   6 Jan 12 13:59 e6a/
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 florian florian 178 Jan 12 13:59 testfile -> .git/annex/objects/V6/ZM/SHA256E-s4--241dca52164d30bee7a0be8c097f02e382acff765a9d4136718a37abd437a57c/SHA256E-s4--241dca52164d30bee7a0be8c097f02e382acff765a9d4136718a37abd437a57c

     ~/GA1 (git)-[master] % cat e6a/e57/SHA256E-s4--241dca52164d30bee7a0be8c097f02e382acff765a9d4136718a37abd437a57c.log
    1389531554.951523s 1 dedf9799-0131-4773-8939-8f76294fa8e9

Where does the e6a directory comes from? I don't suspect a bug there, but in my conception of git-annex.

Thanks!
Florian

> [[fixed|done]]
> 
> I know someone reported this a looong time ago (years), and I cannot find
> that bug report. Probably I closed it because I was unable to find a way
> to reproduce it.
> 
> The spurious log files can be safely removed from your working tree.
> --[[Joey]]