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@ -48,8 +48,14 @@ recover any files stored in it.
When the git config "remote.name.private" is set, git-annex will avoid
recording anything in the git-annex branch about the remote. This is
set by `git-annex initremote --private`, and could also be set for
git remotes. This could be useful, perhaps. Update this tip if you have a
good way to use it.
git remotes. This may be useful if, for example, you are trying to deduplicate content,
bifurcate repositories, or reinject it using a temporary annex as a staging area.
Git annex is excellent for these tasks because it naturally hashes all file content,
therefore if a 'copy' appears in one repo that should belong in another, you can drop
its content or move it to deduplicate. However, in this case, git-annex logging a relationship
between the two repos is undesirable. Especially if the repos are otherwise unrelated or
one of them is temporary (to be deleted once emptied), `remote.private` is preferrable to declaring
the repo dead and doing a `forget --drop-dead --force` operation.
## where the data is actually stored