git-annex/doc/special_remotes/git.mdwn

Normally a git repository is not treated as a special remote, but as a git
remote of the normal kind. Two exceptions to that are [[git-lfs]] and
[[gcrypt]] special remotes.

But it is possible to register a git repository as a special remote.
git-annex and git will use the remote the same as any normal git remote,
but its url will be recorded in the repository. One benefit of doing this
is it allows [[git-annex init|git-annex-init]] to autoenable the remote.

To set up such a special remote:

	git annex initremote myremote type=git location=ssh://... autoenable=true

Now `git annex init` in each clone of the repository will autoenable myremote.

This only works for git repositories that have a git-annex uuid set,
because special remotes have to have a uuid. So it cannot be used
with git repositories that are not git-annex repositories.