$> git  clone http://datasets.datalad.org/labs/haxby/raiders/.git ; cd raiders; git annex wanted origin 2>/dev/null     
Cloning into 'raiders'...
(merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
(recording state in git...)
not metadata=distribution-restrictions=*

so it is necessary to avoid considering all the merging and recording messages, complicating using wanted in the scripts etc

fixed --Joey