### Please describe the problem. If a file is executable, the content of the file remains to be an SHA hash in a newly cloned repository. Neither 'git annex sync --content' or 'git annex get' can bring the file back. The only way to bring the file back is to remove the file and do a 'git checkout' or 'git reset HEAD --hard' If the file is not an executable (a tarball for example), it works as expected. If I did not clone the repo but created a new repo and then manually added a remote it also worked as expected. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? See log below. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 6.20160318-gd594fc0 on Ubuntu 15.10 ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ # If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log vagrant@vm:/tmp/$ cd annex/ vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/$ mkdir repo1 vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/$ cd repo1/ vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/annex/repo1/.git/ vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ git annex init --version=6 init ok (recording state in git...) vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ cp /bin/ls . ‘/bin/ls’ -> ‘./ls’ vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ git add ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ git ci -am 'added ls binary' (recording state in git...) [master (root-commit) 7889519] added ls binary 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100755 ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ ls -l total 116 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 118272 Apr 1 12:56 ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo1/$ cd .. vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/$ git clone repo1 repo2 Cloning into 'repo2'... done. vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/$ cd repo2 vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ git annex init --version=6 init (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...) (recording state in git...) (scanning for unlocked files...) ok (recording state in git...) vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ ls -l total 4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 97 Apr 1 12:57 ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ git annex sync --content commit ok pull origin ok get ls (from origin...) (checksum...) ok pull origin ok (recording state in git...) push origin Counting objects: 11, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done. Writing objects: 100% (11/11), 1.10 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Total 11 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) To /tmp/annex/repo1 * [new branch] git-annex -> synced/git-annex * [new branch] master -> synced/master ok vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ ls -l total 4 -rwxrwxr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 97 Apr 1 12:57 ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ cat ls /annex/objects/SHA256E-s118272--0b786b336b0391b56dabb7b078a23ec4295115628cfd4b635f4d8ae5ae0cfafc vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ git annex get ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ cat ls /annex/objects/SHA256E-s118272--0b786b336b0391b56dabb7b078a23ec4295115628cfd4b635f4d8ae5ae0cfafc vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ rm ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ git checkout ls vagrant@vm:/tmp/annex/repo2/$ ls -l total 116 -rwxrwxr-x 1 vagrant vagrant 118272 Apr 1 12:59 ls # End of transcript or log. """]] ### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders) > [[fixed|done]]