[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="209.250.56.43" subject="comment 4" date="2014-01-18T15:42:59Z" content=""" git-annex sets core.bare=true for direct mode, but it also then sets annex.direct=true and so does not treat it as a bare mode repository. If you had eg, manually tried to change annex.direct to false, and left it in bare mode, that would explain everything. > git annex fix though now doesn't report any problems -- only 'ok', but none of those files mentioned 'ok' has a working symlink That is completely normal behavior; git annex fix does not care if the content is locally present or not; it just checks that the symlinks would point to it if it were present. (Fixed the partial function in dropunused.) """]]