Please describe the problem.

My distro was configured to install all of my environment's packages' autostart files into the global environment unbeknownst to me which became evident after I finally started getting graphical session startup right. Git annex ships one of these files for the assistant (which I don't use) that does git-annex assistant --autostart.

When looking at systemctl --user status, I found my system to be in a "degraded" state because the app-git\x2dannex@autostart.service unit starts and fails every time I log into a graphical-session.target:

Nov 11 00:23:51 THESEUS systemd[1912]: Starting Git Annex Assistant...
Nov 11 00:23:51 THESEUS systemd[1912]: Started Git Annex Assistant.
Nov 11 00:23:51 THESEUS git-annex[373988]: git-annex: Nothing listed in /Users/atemu/.config/git-annex/autostart
Nov 11 00:23:51 THESEUS systemd[1912]: app-git\x2dannex@autostart.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Nov 11 00:23:51 THESEUS systemd[1912]: app-git\x2dannex@autostart.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

This is surprising given that I don't use this feature. It shouldn't be a failure because it's expected for the unit to not do anything when not explicitly configured to do so (as evidenced by the config file not being present).

git-annex assistant's xdg-autostart file should be set up in a way such that not finding the autostart file is not considered a failure and does not make the resulting systemd unit fail.

(I've since deactivated xdg-autostart because I don't intend to use it but this should be fixed regardless.)

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)

Hands down the best way to manage your files