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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 2"""
date="2018-12-05T16:24:17Z"
content="""
Couldn't the docker image come with its own copy of git-annex?
Not super space efficient, but it ensures that the special remote has
access to a version of git-annex with the features it needs.
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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 3"""
date="2018-12-05T16:27:47Z"
content="""
I think this could be a good idea, although I would not want to be forced
to use docker as the only way to install an external special remote either.
It seems that the minimum needed is a way to add a shell script to
PATH with the name of the external special remote program, so git-annex can
run it as usual. Or git-annex could invoke `docker run` itself, but I like
having a shell script because it means git-annex doesn't need to know about
docker and other containerization technologies.
OTOH, I can see it would be nice if `git annex enableremote` could somehow
get everything set up to use docker, and `git annex init` could fully set
up autoenable=true special remotes.
A balance could be for `git annex enableremote` to set up the shell script,
perhaps in `.git/annex/externals/`. Store a few values like which docker
image to use in the remote config, and generate the shell script from that.
Then when a user needs to pass extra parameters to docker, or if they want
to use rkt etc, they can just edit the shell script.
"""]]