... and the `ikiwiki-hosting` patch mentionned earlier to allow git-annex-shell to run at all. Also, the `--shared` option will [make git-annex use hardlinks itself between the two repos](https://git-annex.branchable.com/todo/wishlist:_use_hardlinks_for_local_clones/), so the files will be available for download as well. --[[anarcat]]
> <del>...aaaand this doesn't work anymore. :( i could have sworn this was working minutes ago, but for some reason the annexed files get skipped again now. :(</del> Sorry for the noise, the annex repo wasn't in direct mode - the above works! --[[anarcat]]
+
+This [[!taglink patch]] still applies - anything else I should be doing here to try to get this fixed? A summary maybe? --[[anarcat]]
+
+> Sorry, I don't have the mental bandwidth at the moment to work through the
+> implications of this change. I know you want this feature, I know it's an
+> attractive solution to several use cases, and git annex support is in the
+> queue, but at right now I'm still trying to deal with mitigating
+> CVE-2016-3714, and the last thing I want to do is merge new security
+> risks. --[[smcv]]
+
+> > No problem at all, glad that you still have that in the queue, and I hope
+> > my work was somewhat useful in pushing this forward! Thanks for taking
+> > care of the Imagetragick situation... :/ --[[anarcat]]
+
+Yet another option
+==================
+
+If you happen to use rsync to deploy, instead of git, this is [much easier](https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/big-files).