mention special remotes

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Joey Hess 2019-11-11 13:15:01 -04:00
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@ -16,8 +16,10 @@ embedded in a web page at the url, and that is added to the annex instead.
See the documentation of annex.security.allowed-ip-addresses
in [[git-annex]](1) for details.)
Urls to torrent files (including magnet links) will cause the content of
the torrent to be downloaded, using `aria2c`.
Special remotes can add other special handling of particular urls. For
example, the bittorrent special remotes makes urls to torrent files
(including magnet links) download the content of the torrent,
using `aria2c`.
Normally the filename is based on the full url, so will look like
"www.example.com_dir_subdir_bigfile". In some cases, addurl is able to