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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2017-05-11T17:25:48Z"
+ content="""
+Note that making `git annex export` need a remote to export to would be
+somewhat asymmetric compared to `git annex import` which can operate on any
+directory full of files.
+
+Still, if you want to export to a directory full of files, setting up a
+directory special remote before exporting is not too big a pain, probably.
+
+I suppose the question is whether this asymetricity and complication of
+perhaps needing changes to the remote interface for `export` is a price
+worth paying to be able to have export upload to lots of sorts of remotes.
+"""]]