Hi there,

After updating to 3.20111203 (on Arch Linux) I noticed I was not able to use `git annex get` from a SSH remote (server running Arch Linux, same version of git-annex): "requested key is not present". Same behavior with current master (commit 6cf28585). I had no issue with the previous version (3.20111122).

On this server, I was able to track down the issue using `git-annex-shell inannex` and `strace`:

    $ strace -f -o log git-annex-shell inannex ~/photos-annex.git WORM-s369360-m1321602916--2011-11-17.jpg   
    $ echo $?
    1
    $ tail -n20 log
    [...]
    25623 chdir("/home/schnouki/git-annex") = 0
    25623 stat("/home/schnouki/photos-annex.git/annex/objects/082/676/WORM-s369360-m1321602916--2011-11-17.jpg/WORM-s369360-m1321602916--2011-11-17.jpg", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0400, st_size=369360, ...}) = 0
    25623 open("annex/objects/082/676/WORM-s369360-m1321602916--2011-11-17.jpg/WORM-s369360-m1321602916--2011-11-17.jpg", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    [...]

Note there is a call to `stat()` with the full path to the requested file, and *then* a call to `open()` with a relative path -- which calls this call to fail, and git-annex-shell to return 1. With 3.20111122, there was no call to `stat()`, just a successful call to `open()` with a full absolute path.

Using `git bisect` I was able to determine that this bug appeared in commit 64672c62 ("refactor"). Reverting it makes `git-annex-shell` work as expected, but I'm sure there are better ways to fix this. However I don't know enough Haskell to do it myself.

Could you please try to fix this in a future version?

> Thanks for a very good bug report. 
> 
> I've fixed this stupid mistake introduced in the code refactoring.
> [[done]]
> --[[Joey]]