diff --git a/doc/bugs/registerurl_does_not_register_if_external_remote/comment_7_649f04c1909ab803eabe2eea7f37c6fd._comment b/doc/bugs/registerurl_does_not_register_if_external_remote/comment_7_649f04c1909ab803eabe2eea7f37c6fd._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3e01ef10f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/registerurl_does_not_register_if_external_remote/comment_7_649f04c1909ab803eabe2eea7f37c6fd._comment @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 7""" + date="2023-04-05T19:57:37Z" + content=""" +Well, unregisterurl and rmurl can't safely update location tracking for remotes +other than the web. Unless there were some way to know that simply removing an +url was *sufficient*, like it is for the web, and unlike how it would be +with my S3 remote scenario above. + +But, the only issue with registerurl updating location tracking is that it's +not symmetric with unregisterurl. + +So is that symmetry more important than comment 6? I don't know. In both +cases, some users are going to be surprised by inconsistent behavior. + +The only way to avoid all user surprise would be to go back in time and +make these plumbing commands not update location tracking from the start. +"""]]