diff --git a/doc/todo/add_a_git_backend.mdwn b/doc/todo/add_a_git_backend.mdwn
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--- a/doc/todo/add_a_git_backend.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/add_a_git_backend.mdwn
@@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ use all of git-annex's features everywhere else.
 >> Might also be interesting to use `bup` in the git backend, to work
 >> around git's big file issues there. So git-annex would pull data out
 >> of the git backend using bup. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>>> Very much so. Generally speaking, having one or more versioned storage back-ends with current data in the local annexes sounds incredibly useful. Still being able to get at old data in via the back-end and/or making offline backups of the full history are excellent use cases. -- RichiH