Please describe the problem.
v8 repo automatically upgrades to v10 which is contrary to what the changelog states here ?version 10.20220822.
What steps will reproduce the problem?
git init
git annex init --version 8
git config annex.version
git annex info > /dev/null
git config annex.version
What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
10.20220822 Linux
This was broken in 0d2e3058ee01d55dc3b929ddf8e0573a95a2ca85 which was included in version 10.20220822.
I've reverted the commit as a first step. This means repos initialized at v9 will never autoupgrade to v10, which will need to be fixed somehow. (Update: Fixed that now.)
Gonna need to make a git-annex release ASAP to get this fix out there.