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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="http://joeyh.name/"
ip="209.250.56.55"
subject="comment 1"
date="2014-07-03T19:35:21Z"
content="""
There's not a way to do it yet.
The fundamental problem is that there is a variety of information stored on the git-annex branch, including location tracking information that you don't want (locations on non-public repositories), location tracking information you do want (locations on public repositories), urls, metadata, repository configurations and descriptions (some for public and some for non-public repositories). It seems fairly hard to draw a line. And once a line is drawn, there would be two diverged git-annex branches on the public and private repos, and the private repo would need to synthesize an updated version of the public branch every time it synced.
Instead, the last time this came up, I added the remote.<name>.annex-readonly setting. This allows for at least having a private repository (or a whole network of repositories that all communicate together but remain private) that pulls changes from a public repo, but avoids making changes to it. Certainly not a complete solution, since changes have to be contributed to the public repo in some out-of-band way, like perhaps using git-format-patch and git-am.
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