(when not in direct mode).
However, beware over-optimisation breaking the assistant or perhaps other
long-lived processes.
+* Interaction with shared clones. Should avoid hard linking from/to a
+ object in a shared clone if either repository has the object unlocked.
+ (And should avoid unlocking an object if it's hard linked to a shared clone,
+ but that's already accomplished because it avoids unlocking an object if
+ it's hard linked at all)
* Make automatic merge conflict resolution work for pointer files.
- Should probably automatically handle merge conflicts between annex
symlinks and pointer files too. Maybe by always resulting in a pointer