diff --git a/doc/forum/How_can_I_ONLY_fetch_a_file_from_a_special_remote__63__.mdwn b/doc/forum/How_can_I_ONLY_fetch_a_file_from_a_special_remote__63__.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..42fb0f3833 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_can_I_ONLY_fetch_a_file_from_a_special_remote__63__.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +What I mean is that I just want to effectively fetch the file contents from the special remote but without actually persisting them to the git annex repo. + +My usecase is that I have a git annex repo in a cloud server with limited space backed by something like a huge S3 bucket. I now want to fuse mount this repo and access it's contents as needed while using git annex to manage files. I could ask git annex where the files are and then invoke that myself, but at that point I might as well manage it myself.