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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="backends vs special remotes"
+ date="2020-02-20T19:23:04Z"
+ content="""
+@annex2384 \"Backend which doesn't store files at all?\" -- are you sure you're thinking of backends and not of [[special_remotes]]?  Backends don't \"store files\", special remotes do.  Backends create keys identifying specific contents.
+
+Not sure I fully understand your use case, but you could write an [[external special remote|special_remotes/external]] that, for a given git-annex key, stores \"the location of possible local copies of the file\" -- e.g. using `SETSTATE` or `SETURIPRESENT`.
+"""]]
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="titaniumfiles@5227364ee3e2f9207bc36b6ebb281fc7af6d3c16"
+ nickname="titaniumfiles"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/067eaf551eb18de259f4d88966622326"
+ subject="comment 4"
+ date="2020-02-20T19:34:24Z"
+ content="""
+Sorry for the delay; basically, since I'm using git submodules inside the annex repo as well, while I might want to exclude certain files from my submodules, I still want them in the root annex repository; so I want to read all exclusions from, at the very least, the global `~/.gitignore` (which I *think* also affects `git annex`?) so that when adding to the annex, I'd still have the excluded files when cloning somewhere else.
+
+As a side question, does `git annex` honor `.gitignores` in sub-directories as well, for excluding files in said sub-directories?
+"""]]