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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2019-04-16T17:09:39Z"
+ content="""
+Dug a little into implementing this.
+
+One problem is that things like `git annex dead` look up a name
+in the remote list, and then use the uuid of the returned remote. 
+But if remote foo has sameas=bar-uuid, then the remote in the remote
+list that it looks up will have that uuid, and so the uuid that will
+be marked as dead is almost certianly not the one that the user expected.
+
+And the user can't pass the masked uuid of the sameas remote to `git-annex
+dead`, because there will be no remote in the list with that uuid.
+
+And for that matter, the user is not likely to know the masked uuid,
+because things like `git annex info` won't display it..
+
+Another gotcha is that the user might make remote B with sameas=A-uuid,
+and remote C with sameas=B-uuid. Which really needs to resolve to A-uuid,
+so it needs to do multiple lookups, but then a sameas loop becomes a problem.
+"""]]