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+### Please describe the problem.
+
+git-annex failed to update the local adjusted branch after `git annex drop` stopped abruptly. In turn, `git annex drop` stopped abruptly because a `git annex copy --from X --to Y` had to be stopped (CTRL-C) because of lack of space.
+
+(Perhaps there are two issues here: `drop` being unable to cope with the unexpected situation, and the adjustment code being unable to cope with the weird stat left by `drop`'s abrupt interruption.)
+
+### What steps will reproduce the problem?
+
+```
+$ git copy -J4 --from X --to Y
+[notice that git-annex starts saying "not enough free space, need 27.87 MB more"]
+[kill process with CTRL-C]
+$ git annex drop dirF/
+drop dirF/a/a1.txt ok
+drop dirF/a/a2.txt ok
+[...]
+error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
+ dirF/a/a1.txt
+ dirF/a/a2.txt
+ [...]
+
+Aborting
+
+ Updating adjusted branch failed.
+(recording state in git...)
+$ git status
+HEAD detached at 9d92415fb
+nothing to commit, working tree clean
+$ git annex status
+$ git branch
+* (HEAD detached at 9d92415fb)
+ adjusted/master(unlocked)
+ adjusted/master(unlockpresent)
+ git-annex
+ master
+ synced/master
+```
+
+`dirF/` is the directory whose files were being copied when the process has been stopped with `CTRL-C`.
+
+### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
+
+```
+git-annex version: 10.20230215-gd24914f2a
+[...]
+operating system: linux x86_64
+supported repository versions: 8 9 10
+upgrade supported from repository versions: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
+local repository version: 8
+```
+
+### 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)
+
+git-annex is too good. It so rarely causes problems that one does not develop the "git-annex troubleshooting muscle". :)
+
+