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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="http://joeyh.name/"
+ ip="209.250.56.227"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2013-12-27T18:03:11Z"
+ content="""
+git-annex needs to know the uuid of a remote in order to operate. So at startup, if there is a remote that does not have an annex.uuid set, nearly any git-annex command will try to connect the the remote and query it for its uuid.
+
+To prevent this being done for a remote, `git config remote.bad.annex-ignore true`
+"""]]