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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="preventing fetching from special remotes"
+ date="2020-02-19T18:45:06Z"
+ content="""
+\"set remote.name.skipFetchAll to true\" -- is there a reason git-annex itself doesn't do that?
+
+"""]]