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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="Ilya_Shlyakhter"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1647044369aa7747829c38b9dcc84df0"
+ subject="comment 4"
+ date="2018-09-12T19:33:04Z"
+ content="""
+If I run 'git-annex addurl dx://file-xxxxx', won't git-annex just try calling curl to fetch the URL, instead of querying special remotes?
+I guess I can add my own curl wrapper to the front of PATH, but that feels somewhat hacky.
+
+"""]]