I have a setup where a *source* repository `a` is connected to a *source* repository `b` (through SSH) which is then connected to  *backup* repository `c` (on amazon S3). I was expecting a file added on `a` to be moved to `c` *through* `b`, but that doesn't seem to be happening...

I tried to reproduce with this basic setup:

<pre>
[1009]anarcat@angela:g-a$ git init a
Dépôt Git vide initialisé dans /home/anarcat/test/g-a/a/.git/
[1010]anarcat@angela:g-a$ git init b
Dépôt Git vide initialisé dans /home/anarcat/test/g-a/b/.git/
[1011]anarcat@angela:g-a$ git init c
Dépôt Git vide initialisé dans /home/anarcat/test/g-a/c/.git/
[1012]anarcat@angela:g-a$ cd a/
[1013]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex init
init  ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1014]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex group . source
group . ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1015]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex wanted . groupwanted
wanted . ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1036]anarcat@angela:a$ git remote add origin ../b
[1016]anarcat@angela:a$ cd ../b
[1025]anarcat@angela:b$ git annex init
init  ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1026]anarcat@angela:b$ git annex group . source
group . ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1027]anarcat@angela:b$ git annex wanted . groupwanted
wanted . ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1038]anarcat@angela:b$ git remote add origin ../c
[1019]anarcat@angela:b$ cd ../c
[1021]anarcat@angela:c$ git annex init
init  ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1022]anarcat@angela:c$ git annex group . backup
group . ok
(Recording state in git...)
[1023]anarcat@angela:c$ git annex wanted . groupwanted
wanted . ok
(Recording state in git...)
anarcat@angela:c$ cd ../a
[1041]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex sync
commit  ok
pull origin
warning: no common commits
remote: Décompte des objets: 11, fait.
remote: Compression des objets: 100% (9/9), fait.
remote: Total 11 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Dépaquetage des objets: 100% (11/11), fait.
Depuis ../b
 * [nouvelle branche] git-annex  -> origin/git-annex

merge: refs/remotes/origin/master - not something we can merge

merge: refs/remotes/origin/synced/master - not something we can merge
failed
(merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
(Recording state in git...)
(Recording state in git...)
git-annex: sync: 1 failed
[1042]anarcat@angela:a1$ cd ../b
[1043]anarcat@angela:b$ git annex sync
commit  ok
pull origin
warning: no common commits
remote: Décompte des objets: 11, fait.
remote: Compression des objets: 100% (9/9), fait.
remote: Total 11 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Dépaquetage des objets: 100% (11/11), fait.
Depuis ../c
 * [nouvelle branche] git-annex  -> origin/git-annex

merge: refs/remotes/origin/master - not something we can merge

merge: refs/remotes/origin/synced/master - not something we can merge
failed
(merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
(Recording state in git...)
(Recording state in git...)
git-annex: sync: 1 failed
[1063]anarcat@angela:b$ touch bar
[1064]anarcat@angela:b$ ls
bar
[1065]anarcat@angela:b$ ls -al
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 3 anarcat anarcat 4096 aoû 18 14:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 anarcat anarcat 4096 aoû 18 14:33 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 anarcat anarcat  178 aoû 18 14:41 bar -> .git/annex/objects/pX/ZJ/SHA256E-s0--e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855/SHA256E-s0--e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
drwxr-xr-x 9 anarcat anarcat 4096 aoû 18 14:41 .git
[1066]anarcat@angela:b$ git annex sync
commit  ok
pull origin
ok
push origin
Décompte des objets: 26, fait.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compression des objets: 100% (22/22), fait.
Écriture des objets: 100% (26/26), 2.47 KiB | 0 bytes/s, fait.
Total 26 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ../c
 * [new branch]      git-annex -> synced/git-annex
 * [new branch]      master -> synced/master
ok
[1067]anarcat@angela:b$ cd ../a
[1068]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex sync
commit  ok
pull origin
remote: Décompte des objets: 8, fait.
remote: Compression des objets: 100% (6/6), fait.
remote: Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
Dépaquetage des objets: 100% (8/8), fait.
Depuis ../b
   5d3090f..9e345e6  git-annex  -> origin/git-annex
 * [nouvelle branche] master     -> origin/master
 * [nouvelle branche] synced/master -> origin/synced/master

Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 bar | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 120000 bar

Already up-to-date.
ok
(merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
(Recording state in git...)
(Recording state in git...)
push origin
Décompte des objets: 41, fait.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compression des objets: 100% (36/36), fait.
Écriture des objets: 100% (41/41), 3.50 KiB | 0 bytes/s, fait.
Total 41 (delta 20), reused 0 (delta 0)
To ../b
   6019ab8..368ca15  master -> synced/master
 * [new branch]      git-annex -> synced/git-annex
ok
[1069]anarcat@angela:a$ touch quu^C
[1069]anarcat@angela:a130$ echo foo > quux
[1070]anarcat@angela:a$ cd ../b
[1071]anarcat@angela:b$ ls
bar  foo
[1072]anarcat@angela:b$ cd ..
[1073]anarcat@angela:g-a$ cd a
[1074]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex list
here
|origin
||web
|||
XX_ bar
XX_ foo
X__ quux
[1075]anarcat@angela:a$ git annex list --help
git-annex: unrecognized option `--help'

Usage: git-annex list [PATH ...] [option ...]
    --allrepos  show all repositories, not only remotes

To see additional options common to all commands, run: git annex help options


[1076]anarcat@angela:a1$ git annex list --allrepos
here-
|origin
||web
|||anarcat@angela:~/test/g-a/c
||||
XX__ bar
XX__ foo
X___ quux
</pre>

why don't the files get copied over to the backup repo by the assistant?

i somewhat understand that files don't get sent from `a` to `b`, but why doesn't the assistant copy the files from `b` to `c`?

i have tried using `required` instead of `wanted` and it doesn't work much better.

tested with `5.20150610+gitg608172f-1~ndall+1` (prod) and `5.20141125` (the above test). --[[anarcat]]