I just noticed that if you move a git-annex symlink to a location ignored by git, it simply works. Upon committing that change, however, part of git-annex's fix function apparently tries to git-add the symlink. This fails because the new, ignored location requires a git-add --force.

Considering that git proper doesn't fail or warn, I think git-annex shouldn't either.

This is the error message:

$ git mv annexed-file ignored-dir/
$ git commit
fix ignored-dir/annexed-file ok
(Recording state in git...)
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
ignored-dir
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added
Command xargs ["-0","git","--git-dir=/home/[...]/repo/.git","--work-tree=/home/[...]/repo","add","--"] failed; exit code 123

git-annex: user error (Command xargs ["-0","git","--git-dir=/home/[...]/repo/.git","--work-tree=/home/[...]/repo","add","--"] failed; exit code 123)
failed
git-annex: 1 failed

Weird edge case.. ok, fixed. done --Joey

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