Hello,

I am trying to wrap my head around annex still.  I'm creating a source local git repo, editing an annex file, and then syncing in a second repo.  In that second repo I'm trying to figure out how I can get a status notifying me that a file is out of date.

If I use 'annex sync --content' the files are all up to date, as expected, but what I kind of expected is 'annex status' to say something like 'files out of date, blah blah'.  I am spelling out my example below.  

Annex version is 5.20140613


## I create a source and target repo, and I add a git managed file and an annex managed file

    $ mkdir source target
    $ cd source
    $ git init
    $ git annex init
    $ cat > gitfile
    hi this is my git file
    $ cat > annexfile
    hi this is my annex file
    $ git add gitfile 
    $ git annex add annexfile 
    $ git commit -m 'init commit'
    $ cd ../target
    $ git clone ../source/ .
    $ ls -al
    total 16
    drwxr-xr-x  170 Jul 15 15:55 .
    drwxr-xr-x  136 Jul 15 15:54 ..
    drwxr-xr-x  442 Jul 15 15:55 .git
    lrwxr-xr-x  180 Jul 15 15:55 annexfile -> .git/annex/objects/Qp/F0/SHA256E-s25--045cf30cb201c6723cb6fad9ca539f639de7f242b87775b876ef9ccb1f577ccf/SHA256E-s25--045cf30cb201c6723cb6fad9ca539f639de7f242b87775b876ef9ccb1f577ccf
    -rw-r--r--  23 Jul 15 15:55 gitfile
    $ git annex sync
    ...
    To [base path]/target/../source/
     * [new branch]      git-annex -> synced/git-annex
     * [new branch]      master -> synced/master
    ok
    $ cat gitfile 
    hi this is my git file
    $ cat annexfile 
    cat: annexfile: No such file or directory
    $ git annex sync --content
    $ cat annexfile 
    hi this is my annex file

## So far so good.  Now I'm going to edit my annexed file in source repo and see if I can find out that the file was edited in the target

    $ cd ..
    $ cd source
    $ git annex edit annexfile 
    $ cat > annexfile 
    wow I changed my annex file
    $ git annex add annexfile 
    $ git commit -m 'changed an annex file'
    $ cd ..
    $ cd target
    $ git pull
    $ cat annexfile 
    cat: annexfile: No such file or directory
    $ git annex sync
    $ ls
    annexfile gitfile
    $ cat annexfile 
    cat: annexfile: No such file or directory
    $ git annex status
    [no output]

## Here is where I'd expect something saying 'annexfile is out of date', etc.
## I can infer it because the link is missing, but I'm sure there's a more logical way.

    $ git annex sync --content
    $ cat annexfile 
    wow I changed my annex file

## After I synced content all is well.