git_mv_before_commit_breaks_symlinks.mdwn

### Please describe the problem.

When I `git mv` a file that I just `git annex add`-ed without having `git commit`-ed it first, then the symlink will break.

### What steps will reproduce the problem?

    $ mkdir foo
    $ echo hello > foo/bar
    $ git annex add foo/bar
    $ git mv foo/bar .

### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?

5.20140529 on Debian testing

> This is fundamentally something git-annex cannot deal with,
> because there is no way to hook into git to fix the symlink when
> `git mv` moves the file.
> 
> Instead, git-annex has several "good enough" fixes for the problem:
>
> * As soon as you `git commit`, the pre-commit hook will run `git annex
>   fix` and this will fix the symlink before it gets committed.
> * You can run `git annex fix` yourself after `git mv`.
> * Even `git annex add $file` will fix the symlink if the file is already
>   annexed.
> 
> So, [[done]] --[[Joey]]