### Please describe the problem. It seems that the `synced/git-annex` branch (which I am a little confused about in the first place), doesn't get synced automatically by the assistant. I was expecting the assistant to regularly do the equivalent of `git annex sync`. However, after a client pushed changes to the `git-annex` branch, I had to manually do a `git annex sync` for the changes of the `synced/git-annex` branch to be merged down into the local `git-annex`. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? I have 3 machines in this setup (to simplify: there are more, but those are sufficient). Let's call them foo, bar and quux. foo and quuex are connected to bar through password-less SSH connexions. foo commits a file to git-annex. the assistant syncs that to bar in the `synced/git-annex` branch. quux syncs with bar, and seems to ignore the `synced/git-annex` branch. git-annex sync on quux syncs the `synced/git-annex` branch into the local `git-annex`, working around the issue. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? foo is 5.20150610+gitg608172f-1~ndall+1 on Debian 7.8 (wheezy). bar and quux are 5.20150409+git126-ga29f683-1~ndall+1 and 5.20150610+gitg608172f-1~ndall+1 (respectively) on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) . ### Please provide any additional information below. I guess a more general question is how and how often do those branches get merged by the assistant... it's still unclear to me how this works. [[!format sh """ $ sudo -u www-data -H git annex sync (merging origin/synced/git-annex into git-annex...) (recording state in git...) commit ok pull origin Auto packing the repository in background for optimum performance. See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. Already up-to-date. ok push origin Counting objects: 373637, done. # End of transcript or log. """]] This was started at 20:23 UTC. Note that the sync had run previously under the assistant: 
[2015-07-22 20:09:06 UTC] RemoteControl: Syncing with origin
Available, as usual, for further debugging. :) -- [[anarcat]]