# As I wonder
At such disks, with option annex.thin, annex uses only file tree for keeping content. Content of the files in the .git folder is wiped.
+
+> [[done]], dup of other todo, and I don't know how to avoid the problem
+> with git deleting the file. --[[Joey]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2021-02-08T18:17:00Z"
+ content="""
+This has the following problem: You run git pull. A file got deleted. git
+deletes the file in the repository directory. That was the only copy of the
+content, so it's now impossible to revert the deletion and get the file
+back, which you're supposed to be able to do.
+
+This is why git-annex has to either make a copy or hard link the file
+away for safekeeping.
+
+As already discussed in [[annex.thin without hardlinks]].
+"""]]