`git annex find` currently makes for a great way to find which files are already local, and don't need to get `git annex get` gotten; obviously `ls` just shows me all the files in a given directory, disregarding git-annex (and without recursing to subdirectories). I think that adding a '--maxdepth' option to `git annex find` would make it much easier to use at directories high up in the directory structure, since currently `git annex find` recurses all subdirectories necessarily, when I really just want to see whether or not there are git-annex files present from a given directory.

Obviously, since directories themselves are not git-annex objects, there is no way to say whether or not they are "present", but perhaps the most intuitive would be to say whether or not any git-annex files under a given directory are present.

For example, if I have:  
./  
+-- subdir0/  
|  +-- file0 (present in local git-annex repo)  
|  +-- file1 (present in local git-annex repo)  
+-- subdir1/  
|  +-- file0 (not present in local git-annex repo)  
|  +-- file1 (not present in local git-annex repo)  
+-- file2 (present in local git-annex repo)  

and I type `git annex find --maxdepth 1 .`, the output might look something like:  
subdir0/  
file2  

rather than:  
subdir0/file0  
subdir0/file1  
file2