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+in light of https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/1259 (conflicting remote names)  I wondered if both initremote and enableremote (and probably others) should acquire ability to set/refer to remotes by their UUIDs instead of relying purely on name which is not guaranteed to be unique.
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