Hello,

i am trying to run the walkthrough on Windows 7. When i try to get the contents of a file, i only get a some git annex text string and not the real file. Both repositories are on the same ntfs filesystem.

C:\tmp>git annex version
git-annex version: 4.20130827-g4f18612
build flags: Pairing Testsuite S3 WebDAV DNS
local repository version: 4
default repository version: 3
supported repository versions: 3 4
upgrade supported from repository versions: 2

C:\tmp\server>git --version
git version 1.8.3.msysgit.0

walkthrough.bat

doskey /history > commands.log
mkdir laptop
cd laptop
git init
git annex init laptop
cd ..

git clone laptop server
cd server
git annex init server
git remote add laptop c:\tmp\laptop

cd ..\laptop
git remote add server c:\tmp\server
copy ..\1.pdf .
git annex add 1.pdf
git commit -m add
dir 

cd ..\server
dir
git fetch laptop
git merge laptop/master
git annex get 1.pdf
dir
type 1.pdf

walkthrough.log

C:\tmp>walkthrough.bat

C:\tmp>doskey /history  1>commands.log

C:\tmp>mkdir laptop

C:\tmp>cd laptop

C:\tmp\laptop>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/tmp/laptop/.git/

C:\tmp\laptop>git annex init laptop
init laptop
  Detected a crippled filesystem.

  Enabling direct mode.

  Detected a filesystem without fifo support.

  Disabling ssh connection caching.
ok
(Recording state in git...)

C:\tmp\laptop>cd ..

C:\tmp>git clone laptop server
Cloning into 'server'...
done.
warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.


C:\tmp>cd server

C:\tmp\server>git annex init server
init server
  Detected a crippled filesystem.

  Enabling direct mode.

  Detected a filesystem without fifo support.

  Disabling ssh connection caching.
ok
(Recording state in git...)

C:\tmp\server>git remote add laptop c:\tmp\laptop

C:\tmp\server>cd ..\laptop

C:\tmp\laptop>git remote add server c:\tmp\server

C:\tmp\laptop>copy ..\1.pdf .
        1 file(s) copied.

C:\tmp\laptop>git annex add 1.pdf
add 1.pdf (checksum...) ok
(Recording state in git...)

C:\tmp\laptop>git commit -m add
[master (root-commit) 7ad1514] add
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 120000 1.pdf

C:\tmp\laptop>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is x

 Directory of C:\tmp\laptop

09/01/2013  11:03 AM    <DIR>          .
09/01/2013  11:03 AM    <DIR>          ..
08/30/2013  12:43 PM            37,500 1.pdf
               1 File(s)         37,500 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   7,698,817,024 bytes free

C:\tmp\laptop>cd ..\server

C:\tmp\server>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is x

 Directory of C:\tmp\server

09/01/2013  11:03 AM    <DIR>          .
09/01/2013  11:03 AM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   7,698,817,024 bytes free

C:\tmp\server>git fetch laptop
remote: Counting objects: 9, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), done.
From c:\tmp\laptop
 * [new branch]      git-annex  -> laptop/git-annex
 * [new branch]      master     -> laptop/master

C:\tmp\server>git merge laptop/master

C:\tmp\server>git annex get 1.pdf
get 1.pdf (merging laptop/git-annex origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
(Recording state in git...)
(from laptop...)
1.pdf
       37500 100%    4.51MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

sent 37573 bytes  received 31 bytes  75208.00 bytes/sec
total size is 37500  speedup is 1.00
ok
(Recording state in git...)

C:\tmp\server>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is x

 Directory of C:\tmp\server

09/01/2013  11:03 AM    <DIR>          .
09/01/2013  11:03 AM    <DIR>          ..
09/01/2013  11:03 AM               194 1.pdf
               1 File(s)            194 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   7,698,767,872 bytes free

C:\tmp\server>type 1.pdf
.git/annex/objects/kM/0q/SHA256E-s37500--32d8190c7e189d45f48245a100e4cc981ea1bbc
02ac8bfa6188db73e41ce06f3.pdf/SHA256E-s37500--32d8190c7e189d45f48245a100e4cc981e
a1bbc02ac8bfa6188db73e41ce06f3.pdfC:\tmp\server>
C:\tmp\server>