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+Enhancement: `recover` automatically runs `repair index`
+
+When trying to recover data from an interrupted snapshot, it was necessary
+to manually run `restic repair index` before runnning `restic recover`.
+This now happens automatically.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/52897
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/5296