### Please describe the problem.

I have a annex repo in external drive (a bare repo), usually synced with a macbook. When I'm trying to sync the drive over to a Windows machine, all contents fail to sync over. I managed to reproduce the problem with a set of instructions locally:

    C:\Temp\test>dir                                               
     Volume in drive C is Windows                                  
     Volume Serial Number is 6839-6E71                             
                                                                   
     Directory of C:\Temp\test                                     
                                                                   
    2014/05/08  23:08    <DIR>          .                          
    2014/05/08  23:08    <DIR>          ..                         
    2014/05/08  23:08                14 file.txt                   
                   1 File(s)             14 bytes                  
                   2 Dir(s)  164,943,056,896 bytes free            
                                                                   
    C:\Temp\test>git init                                          
    Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Temp/test/.git/         
                                                                   
    C:\Temp\test>git annex init                                    
    init                                                           
      Detected a filesystem without fifo support.                  
                                                                   
      Disabling ssh connection caching.                            
                                                                   
      Detected a crippled filesystem.                              
                                                                   
      Enabling direct mode.                                        
    ok                                                             
    (Recording state in git...)                                    
                                                                   
    C:\Temp\test>git annex add .                                   
    add file.txt ok                                                
    (Recording state in git...)                                    
                                                                   
    C:\Temp\test>cd ..                                             
                                                                   
    C:\Temp>mkdir bare                                             
                                                                   
    C:\Temp>cd bare                                                
                                                                   
    C:\Temp\bare>git init --bare                                   
    Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Temp/bare/              
    C:\Temp\bare>git annex init
    init
      Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
    
      Disabling ssh connection caching.
    
      Detected a crippled filesystem.
    ok
    (Recording state in git...)
    
    C:\Temp\bare>cd ../test
    
    C:\Temp\test>git remote add mybare C:\Temp\bare
    
    C:\Temp\test>git annex sync --content mybare
    commit  ok
    pull mybare
    warning: no common commits
    remote: Counting objects: 5, done.
    remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
    remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
    Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), done.
    From C:\Temp\bare
     * [new branch]      git-annex  -> mybare/git-annex
    ok
    (merging mybare/git-annex into git-annex...)
    (Recording state in git...)
    copy file.txt copy file.txt (to mybare...)
    file.txt
              14 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
    
    sent 86 bytes  received 31 bytes  234.00 bytes/sec
    total size is 14  speedup is 0.12
    ok
    pull mybare
    ok
    (Recording state in git...)
    push mybare
    Counting objects: 23, done.
    Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (21/21), 1.94 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
    Total 21 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
    To C:\Temp\bare
     * [new branch]      git-annex -> synced/git-annex
     * [new branch]      annex/direct/master -> synced/master
    ok
    
    C:\Temp\test>cd ..
    
    C:\Temp>git clone C:\Temp\bare test2
    Cloning into 'test2'...
    done.
    
    C:\Temp>cd test2
    
    C:\Temp\test2>ls -l
    total 1
    ----------+ 1 Ruo None 188 May  8 23:10 file.txt
    
    C:\Temp\test2>git annex init
    init
      Detected a filesystem without fifo support.
    
      Disabling ssh connection caching.
    
      Detected a crippled filesystem.
    
      Enabling direct mode.
    ok
    (Recording state in git...)
    
    C:\Temp\test2>git annex get file.txt
    get file.txt (merging origin/git-annex origin/synced/git-annex into git-annex...)
    (Recording state in git...)
    
      Unable to access these remotes: origin
    
      Try making some of these repositories available:
            f2af6f52-18d5-4a54-ae5c-c4bef5fab00c -- origin (MY-PC:C:\Temp\bare)
            fc00306a-157c-439b-a5c3-37aabf9d61fb -- MY-PC:C:\Temp\test
    failed
    git-annex: get: 1 failed
    
    
    C:\Temp\test2>git version
    git version 1.9.2.msysgit.0
    
    C:\Temp\test2>git annex version
    git-annex version: 5.20140421-g78d6aa1
    build flags: Assistant Webapp Webapp-secure Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS Feeds Quvi TDFA CryptoHash
    key/value backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SKEIN256E SKEIN512E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 SKEIN256 SKEIN512 WORM URL
    remote types: git gcrypt S3 bup directory rsync web webdav tahoe glacier hook external
    local repository version: 5
    supported repository version: 5
    upgrade supported from repository versions: 2 3 4
                                                                  
[[!tag confirmed]]

> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]]