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+Sometimes through misconfiguration I have situations where the git server is reachable but annex fails to reach the annex-shell.  If I set `annex.ignore` explicitly to `false` for a remote, will that prevent git-annex from setting it to true in these situations?
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+I want to be able to set it so that even if a remote is detected to not support annex, it should still regard it as an annex remote.