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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 2"""
+ date="2023-03-23T18:27:36Z"
+ content="""
+Analysis: When parsing the relative url, git-annex ends up constructing a
+Repo with location `LocalUnknown "./rsync://user@user.rsync.net:relative/path/to/repo.git"`
+
+So, it thinks it's a local git repository, which of course does not exist,
+so it skips syncing with it.
+
+Why does it do that? Well:
+
+	ghci> import Network.URI
+	ghci> parseURI "rsync://user@user.rsync.net:relative/path/to/repo.git"
+	Nothing
+
+And Git.GCrypt.encryptedRemote strips off the "gcrypt::",
+leaving that.
+
+	ghci> r
+	Repo {location = LocalUnknown "/home/joey/tmp/bb", config = fromList [], fullconfig = fromList [], remoteName = Nothing, gitEnv = Nothing, gitEnvOverridesGitDir = False, gitGlobalOpts = [], gitDirSpecifiedExplicitly = False}
+	ghci> rr
+	Repo {location = Url gcrypt::rsync://user@user.rsync.net:relative/path/to/repo, config = fromList [], fullconfig = fromList [], remoteName = Just "test1", gitEnv = Nothing, gitEnvOverridesGitDir = False, gitGlobalOpts = [], gitDirSpecifiedExplicitly = False}
+	ghci> encryptedRemote r rr
+	Repo {location = LocalUnknown "/home/joey/tmp/bb/rsync://user@user.rsync.net:relative/path/to/repo.git", config = fromList [], fullconfig = fromList [], remoteName = Nothing, gitEnv = Nothing, gitEnvOverridesGitDir = False, gitGlobalOpts = [], gitDirSpecifiedExplicitly = False}
+	ghci> parseRemoteLocation "rsync://user@user.rsync.net:relative/path/to/repo" r
+	RemotePath "rsync://user@user.rsync.net:relative/path/to/repo"
+
+parseRemoteLocation uses isURI and that does not parse as a valid URI.
+
+So Git.GCrypt.encryptedRemote will need to force it to parse as an url in this case.
+
+(I remember that I fixed git-remote-gcrypt to support absolute urls for related
+reasons. Those relative nonstandard urls are not a good idea.)
+"""]]