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Better to make it not be surprising and slow, than surprising and fast.
--raw can be used when it needs to be really fast.

Implemented adding a youtube-dl supported url to an existing file.

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@ -32,13 +32,12 @@ be used to get better filenames.
Don't immediately download the url, and avoid storing the size of the
url's content. This makes git-annex accept whatever content is there
at a future point. This is also the fastest option, since it does not
hit the network at all.
Note that this does *not* check for embedded videos using `youtube-dl`,
although it used to in previous versions of git-annex.
Use --fast instead if you want to do that.
at a future point.
This is the fastest option, but it still has to access the network
to check if the url contains embedded media. When adding large numbers
of urls, using `--relaxed --raw` is much faster.
* `--raw`
Prevent special handling of urls by youtube-dl, bittorrent, and other