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+Currently, the workflow for initializing a remote repo has to involve
+manually pushing the git-annex branch to the repo, first. This primes
+git-annex-shell to auto-initialize the repo. Only after that first push,
+can git-annex sync be used. If git-annex sync is run earlier, it will try
+to get the remore uuid, fail, and set annex-ignore.
+
+This should be improved.. It ought to be possible to add a new remote and
+have git-annex sync do everything needed.