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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2020-02-28T17:23:52Z"
+ content="""
+Seems to me that having a file in your working tree whose content is
+missing is something that it's reasonable for fsck to mention as a problem.
+
+ When a key is specified, indicates that the content of that
+ key has been irretrievably lost. This prevents commands like
+ git annex fsck --all from complaining about it; --all will
+ not operate on the key anymore.
+
+That's the intention of marking a key as dead, to avoid a fsck --all
+complaining about some long-ago loss that is no longer relevant but left
+traces in the repository.
+
+So I don't see a bug here.
+"""]]